State v. Moul

LEWIS, Judge.

The State’s sole assignment of error is to the lower court’s suppression of defendant’s prior conviction. It argues that the trial court made inadequate findings to support total suppression of the evidence and that G.S. 8C-1, Rule 609 allows introduction of the conviction to impeach the defendant should he testify.

It should be noted at the outset that our scope of review of an order such as this is strictly limited to determining whether the trial judge’s underlying findings of fact are supported by compe*646tent evidence, in which event they are conclusively binding on appeal, and…