State v. Smith

EXUM, Justice.

Through this appeal, defendant seeks review of his convictions for two sexual assaults, a burglary and a robbery. He contends that there was error in the denial of his motion for continuance and in certain evidentiary rulings by the trial judge during a hearing on the question of his capacity to proceed and during trial before the jury. We conclude defendant had a fair trial free from reversible error.

On 2 June 1982, the victim of these crimes, a 63-year-old retired schoolteacher, registered and checked into a room at Johnson’s Motor Lodge in Smithfield, North Carolina, stopping…