State v. Isaacs, ___ N.C. App. ___, 821 S.E.2d 300 (Oct. 2, 2018)

In a bond forfeiture proceeding, the trial court did not err by taking judicial notice of the file as evidence that the defendant was served with the order of arrest. A trial court may take judicial notice of earlier proceedings in the same case, including matters in the file not offered into evidence. Here, the trial court took judicial notice of a fact beyond reasonable controversy. It is undisputed that the defendant was served with the order for arrest before the deadline for filing a notice to set aside the bond forfeiture expired and the trial court attached the order for arrest as an exhibit to its order.