STATE v. ROWELL

No. 725.

93 S.E.2d 201 (1956)

244 N.C. 280

STATE v. Bill ROWELL.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 6, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Wm. B. Rodman, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. Claude L. Love, Harvey W. Marcus, Staff Atty., Raleigh, for the State.

Hackett & Weinstein, L. J. Britt & Son, Lumberton, for defendant appellant.


WINBORNE, Justice.

The assignment of error most stressed by appellant on this appeal is based upon Exception No. 1 to the exclusion of the evidence as above set forth. In this connection, "Cross-examination of an opposing witness for the purpose of showing his bias or interest is a substantial legal right, which the trial judge can neither abrogate nor abridge to the prejudice of the cross-examining party." So declared this Court, in opinion by Ervin, J., in State...

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