§ 8-53.1 – Physician-patient and nurse privilege; limitations.
8-53.1. Physician-patient and nurse privilege; limitations. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 8-53 and G.S. 8-53.13, the physician-patient or nurse privilege shall not be a ground for excluding evidence regarding the abuse or neglect of a child under the age of 16 years or regarding an illness of or injuries to such child or the […]
§ 8-53.2 – Communications between clergymen and communicants.
8-53.2. Communications between clergymen and communicants. No priest, rabbi, accredited Christian Science practitioner, or a clergyman or ordained minister of an established church shall be competent to testify in any action, suit or proceeding concerning any information which was communicated to him and entrusted to him in his professional capacity, and necessary to enable him […]
§ 8-49 – Witness not excluded by interest or crime.
8-49. Witness not excluded by interest or crime. No person offered as a witness shall be excluded, by reason of incapacity from interest or crime, from giving evidence either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or […]
§ 8-50 – Parties competent as witnesses.
8-50. Parties competent as witnesses. (a) On the trial of any issue, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any action, suit or other proceeding in court, or before any judge, justice, jury or other person having, by law, authority to hear and examine evidence, the parties themselves and the […]
§ 8-50.1 – Competency of blood tests; jury charge; taxing of expenses as costs.
8-50.1. Competency of blood tests; jury charge; taxing of expenses as costs. (a) In the trial of any criminal action or proceeding in any court in which the question of parentage arises, regardless of any presumptions with respect to parentage, the court before whom the matter may be brought, upon motion of the State or […]
§ 8-50.2 – Results of speed-measuring instruments; admissibility.
8-50.2. Results of speed-measuring instruments; admissibility. (a) The results of the use of radio microwave, laser, or other speed-measuring instruments shall be admissible as evidence of the speed of an object in any criminal or civil proceeding for the purpose of corroborating the opinion of a person as to the speed of an object based […]
§ 8-50.3 – Expired September 30, 2007.
8-50.3: Expired September 30, 2007.
§ 8-51.1 – Dying declarations.
8-51.1. Dying declarations. Dying declarations admissible in administrative proceedings shall be as provided in G.S. 8C-1, Rule 804. (1973, c. 464, s. 1; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1037, s. 11.)