State v. Howard
This text of 158 S.E.2d 350 (State v. Howard) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of North Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The State’s evidence showing the defendant’s intoxication and the inference of terrific speed arising from the physical facts make out a case of culpable negligence. State v. Cope, 204 N.C. 28, 167 S.E. 456. The motions for directed verdict were properly overruled.
The Court’s finding, inserted in the record, that the evidence of the physician was necessary to a proper administration of justice, takes the physician’s evidence out of the privileged communication *521 rule provided in G.S. 8-53. The time the finding is inserted in the record, under the facts here disclosed, is not deemed material.
No error.
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158 S.E.2d 350, 272 N.C. 519, 1968 N.C. LEXIS 693, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/state-v-howard-nc-1968.