State v. . Hicks

Stacy, C. J.,

after stating the case: Conceding that the action of the trial court in excluding the testimony of S. M. Powell is sustainable on the ground that the witness had failed to qualify himself by first saying that he knew the general reputation and character of Roy Pearson (S. v. Mills, 184 N. C., 694, 114 S. E., 314), though this may be doubted on a liberal interpretation of the record (S. v. Fleming, 194 N. C., 42, 138 S. E., 342), still it would seem that a new trial must be awarded for error in the exclusion of the testimony of Amos Mims. It would be “sticking in the bark” to say…