141 S.E. 585 | N.C. | 1928
Defendant was convicted at a trial in the recorder's court of Johnston County, upon warrant charging possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale. From judgment upon this conviction he appealed to the Superior Court of said county. He was there tried upon the original warrant, as amended.
From judgment upon a verdict of guilty defendant appealed to the Supreme Court. Defendant's assignments of error upon his appeal to this Court cannot be sustained.
Defendant did not testify as a witness in his own behalf. His objections to questions addressed to witnesses offered by him, upon their cross-examination by the Solicitor for the State, were properly overruled. They did not tend to impeach him, or to show that his character was bad. The principle applied in S. v. Adams,
Nor was there error in allowing, during the progress of the trial, amendments to the warrant upon which defendant was tried. Defendant had ample opportunity to offer evidence with respect to the matters alleged in the amendments. The effect of the amendments was merely to add additional counts in the warrant. They were allowed in view of the evidence elicited during the trial. The order allowing the amendments is sustained by S. v.Poythress,
No error. *242