Kennedy v. Tarlton

HEDRICK, Judge.

By his first assignment of error, defendant contends the court committed prejudicial error in not sustaining his objection to plaintiff’s counsel’s reading portions of the amended pleadings in his argument to the jury.

In jury trials the whole case as well of law as of fact may be argued to the jury. G.S. 84-14; Brown v. Vestal, 231 N.C. 56, 55 S.E. 2d 797 (1949).

The trial judge has large discretion in controlling and directing the argument of counsel, but this does not include the right to deprive a litigant of the benefit of counsel’s argument when it is confined to the proper…