In State v. White, 331 N.C. 604, 616, 419 S.E.2d 557, 564 (1992), appeal after remand, 343 N.C. 378, 471 S.E.2d 593, cert. denied, 519 U.S. 936, 117 S. Ct. 314, 136 L. Ed. 2d 229 (1996), our Supreme Court held that defendant failed to show that any of the court's rulings, considered individually, were sufficiently prejudicial to require a new trial, but their cumulative effect may have deprived him of his fundamental right to a fair trial. Id. However, State v. White is distinguishable from the present case because the defendant in that case did not rely on the plain error rule. In that case, the trial court ruled on the objections by defendant, which were, in turn, the subject of the defendant's assignments of error before the appellate court.