{
  "id": 8554853,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. SYLVESTER GREEN",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Green",
  "decision_date": "1976-04-07",
  "docket_number": "No. 755SC926",
  "first_page": "178",
  "last_page": "180",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "29 N.C. App. 178"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 275,
    "char_count": 3843,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.67,
    "sha256": "d10c7c3b4b788440588e1f257164d487906c712aff76a8ec51d8bec6d50be3b6",
    "simhash": "1:df8ac0202ebabbdd",
    "word_count": 615
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T16:29:22.308082+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "Judges Parker and Clark concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. SYLVESTER GREEN"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "BRITT, Judge.\nBy the sole assignment of error argued in his brief, defendant contends the trial court erred in allowing Police Officer Henderson, over objection, to state that he obtained a confession from Kenneth Aaron.\nIt will be noted that defendant was tried separately from Jones and Aaron. On direct examination Officer Henderson, without objection, related statements made to him by Jones which implicated defendant in all four cases. On redirect examination, Henderson, over defendant\u2019s objection, stated that he obtained a confession from Aaron but did not relate at that time what Aaron had told him. When the State did not present Aaron as a witness, defendant called him and at that time he denied making any confession. As a rebuttal witness for the State, Henderson, without objection, testified to the effect that Aaron\u2019s confession was in the form of agreeing with incriminating statements made in his presence by Jones. The police did not get a signed statement from Aaron.\nThere are many reasons why the assignment has no merit but we will discuss only one. It is well settled that ordinarily the admission of testimony over objection is harmless when testimony of the same import is theretofore or thereafter admitted without objection. 3 Strong, N. C. Index 2d, Criminal Law \u00a7 169 and cases therein cited. When he was called as a rebuttal witness, Officer Henderson testified, without objection, that while Jones was making his statements with respect to the offenses, police would periodically stop Jones, ask Aaron if the statement was correct, and Aaron would answer in the affirmative. In view of this testimony, we can perceive no possible way that defendant was prejudiced by the bare statements of Officer Henderson that Aaron \u201cconfessed.\u201d\nWe hold that defendant received a fair trial free from prejudicial error.\nNo error.\nJudges Parker and Clark concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "BRITT, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Edmisten, by Associate Attorney Norma S. Harrell, for the State.",
      "Lionel L. Yow for defendant appellant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. SYLVESTER GREEN\nNo. 755SC926\n(Filed 7 April 1976)\nCriminal Law \u00a7 169\u2014 admission of evidence over objection \u2014 no objection to like testimony \u2014 harmless error\nDefendant was not prejudiced by testimony over objection that an accomplice who was tried separately from defendant had \u201cconfessed\u201d where an officer thereafter testified without objection that the accomplice\u2019s confession was in the form of agreeing with incriminating statements made in his presence by another accomplice.\nAppeal by defendant from Cowper, Judge. Judgments entered 13 June 1975 in Superior Court, New Hanover County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 9 March 1976.\nBy indictments proper in form, defendant was charged with (1) larceny of a 1973 Chevy truck, (2) safecracking, (3) breaking or entering a building occupied by B. F. Goodrich Company, and (4) larceny of personal property of the value of $4,019.90 pursuant to the breaking or entering. He pled not guilty to all charges.\nEvidence presented by the State, in pertinent part, tended to show: On Saturday night, 30 November 1974, defendant, together with Gonzales Jones and Kenneth Aaron, broke into a Goodrich Store in Wilmington, cracked a safe and took money from it, loaded a quantity of merchandise on a truck and drove it away. When that truck developed mechanical difficulty, they returned to the store and got another truck. Defendant drove the second truck while Jones and Aaron followed in Aaron\u2019s Dodge automobile. Police stopped the car and arrested Jones and Aaron. On the following day, Jones confessed, implicating defendant and Aaron. At the trial in which defendant took the stand, Jones testified as a witness for the State. The jury returned verdicts finding defendant guilty of the four charges stated above. From judgments imposing prison sentences, he appealed.\nAttorney General Edmisten, by Associate Attorney Norma S. Harrell, for the State.\nLionel L. Yow for defendant appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0178-01",
  "first_page_order": 210,
  "last_page_order": 212
}
