Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1950

State v. Werst

State v. Werst
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided June 9, 1950 · Ekyin
232 N.C. 330; 59 S.E.2d 835; 1950 N.C. LEXIS 506
State v. Werst

Cases that cite this one

3 later published cases cite this decision.

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion of the Court

EkyiN, J.

The testimony of the prosecution was sufficient to take the ease to the jury and to support the verdict for the State. S. v. Cancelmo, 86 Or. 379, 168 P. 721. Consequently the court rightly refused to dismiss the action upon a compulsory nonsuit under G.S. 15-173. Whatever error the court below may have committed in temporarily excluding the evidence of the defendant’s witness, Yelma Smoot, as to the circumstances confronting the accused at the "time in controversy was rendered harmless when the same evidence was subsequently given by the same witness without objection on her further examination. Eaves v. Coxe, 203 N.C. 173, 165 S.E. 345. When it is read as a whole, the charge is free from legal error. Wyatt v. Coach Co., 229 N.C. 340, 49 S.E. 2d 650.

For tbe reasons given, the trial and sentence are sustained.

No error.

Case-law data current through December 31, 2025. Source: CourtListener bulk data.