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STATE v. HOPKINS

No. 58.

252 S.E.2d 755 (1979)

296 N.C. 673

STATE of North Carolina v. Larry Dale HOPKINS and Virginia Lewis Petty Hopkins.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Deal, Jr., Boone, for defendant Larry Dale Hopkins.

Stacy C. Eggers, III, Boone, for defendant Virginia Lewis Petty Hopkins.

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Thomas B. Wood, Raleigh, for the State.

COPELAND, Justice.

For the reasons stated below, we find no error in defendants' trial.

In their first assignment of error, defendants claim the trial court erred in allowing the State to use leading questions during the direct examination of Howard Miller, the main prosecuting witness.

The general rule in North Carolina is that a party cannot use leading questions during direct examination of his own witness. See, e. g., State v. Greene,

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