State v. Wortham

PARKER, Judge.

Defendant initially assigns error to the trial court’s allowing the district attorney to ask what the defendant contends were leading questions. Whether to permit counsel to ask leading questions is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial judge, and his exercise of that discretion will not be disturbed on appeal absent a showing of abuse. State v. Peele, 281 N.C. 253, 188 S.E. 2d 326 (1972) ; State v. Pearson, 258 N.C. 188, 128 S.E. 2d 251 (1962). Examination of the record discloses that defendant’s first assignment of error is based upon only three questions which, if…