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App.", "id": 14983, "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 5, "name_long": "North Carolina", "name": "N.C." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "21 ALR4th 444", "category": "reporters:specialty", "reporter": "A.L.R. 4th", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "379 S.E.2d 842", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1989, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "847", "parenthetical": "citation omitted" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "324 N.C. 437", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 2482061 ], "year": 1989, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "445", "parenthetical": "citation omitted" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/324/0437-01" ] }, { "cite": "369 S.E.2d 822", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1988, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "824" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "322 N.C. 585", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 2514083 ], "year": 1988, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "589" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/322/0585-01" ] }, { "cite": "417 S.E.2d 256", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1992, "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "331 N.C. 287", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 2501957, 2498451, 2497272, 2497849, 2501053 ], "year": 1992, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/331/0287-01", "/nc/331/0287-02", "/nc/331/0287-03", "/nc/331/0287-05", "/nc/331/0287-04" ] }, { "cite": "411 S.E.2d 376", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1991, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "380" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "104 N.C. App. 675", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C. App.", "case_ids": [ 8523656 ], "year": 1991, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "679" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc-app/104/0675-01" ] }, { "cite": "25 S.E.2d 621", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "weight": 2, "year": 1943, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "622", "parenthetical": "time is not of the essence of the offense of rape of a female under the age of sixteen" }, { "page": "622" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "223 N.C. 210", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 8603851 ], "weight": 2, "year": 1943, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "211", "parenthetical": "time is not of the essence of the offense of rape of a female under the age of sixteen" }, { "page": "211" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/223/0210-01" ] }, { "cite": "66 N.C. 120", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 11276661 ], "year": 1872, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "122", "parenthetical": "time is not of the essence of the offense unless time constitutes a part of the crime, e.g., time is of the essence of first-degree burglary because an essential element of first-degree burglary is the commission of the crime in the nighttime" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/66/0120-01" ] }, { "cite": "358 S.E.2d 64", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1987, "pin_cites": [ { "parenthetical": "because there was no error in the dates alleged in the indictment, even if time were of the essence in defendants' cases, the charges would not be subject to dismissal under Section 924(a)(4)" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "320 N.C. 174", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 4729670, 4730118, 4726092, 4725548, 4724635 ], "year": 1987, "pin_cites": [ { "parenthetical": "because there was no error in the dates alleged in the indictment, even if time were of the essence in defendants' cases, the charges would not be subject to dismissal under Section 924(a)(4)" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/320/0174-01", "/nc/320/0174-04", "/nc/320/0174-02", "/nc/320/0174-03", "/nc/320/0174-05" ] }, { "cite": "354 S.E.2d 527", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1987, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "531", "parenthetical": "because there was no error in the dates alleged in the indictment, even if time were of the essence in defendants' cases, the charges would not be subject to dismissal under Section 924(a)(4)" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "85 N.C. App. 1", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C. App.", "case_ids": [ 12169578 ], "year": 1987, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "7", "parenthetical": "because there was no error in the dates alleged in the indictment, even if time were of the essence in defendants' cases, the charges would not be subject to dismissal under Section 924(a)(4)" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc-app/85/0001-01" ] }, { "cite": "399 S.E.2d 305", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "weight": 2, "year": 1991, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "306" }, { "page": "306" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "328 N.C. 72", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 2543912 ], "weight": 2, "year": 1991, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "75" }, { "page": "75" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/328/0072-01" ] }, { "cite": "66 N.C. 120", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 11276661 ], "weight": 3, "year": 1872, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "124" }, { "page": "125" } ], "opinion_index": 1, "case_paths": [ "/nc/66/0120-01" ] }, { "cite": "399 S.E.2d 305", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.2d", "year": 1991, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "306" } ], "opinion_index": 1 }, { "cite": "328 N.C. 72", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 2543912 ], "year": 1991, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "75" } ], "opinion_index": 1, "case_paths": [ "/nc/328/0072-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 902, "char_count": 24247, "ocr_confidence": 0.737, "pagerank": { "raw": 3.2407122090609184e-07, "percentile": 0.8683010090549681 }, "sha256": "ab016581deede3c76394a1bc6ef3c0c7874e74c5a0ecb5be91039bca00e95946", "simhash": "1:0b3de5f0563bd1be", "word_count": 4084 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:46:54.224272+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [ "Chief Judge ARNOLD concurs.", "Judge McCRODDEN concurs with separate opinion." ], "parties": [ "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WILLIAM ANDREW McKINNEY" ], "opinions": [ { "text": "GREENE, Judge.\nDefendant appeals from judgments entered 10 September 1991, which judgments are based on jury verdicts convicting defendant of two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, N.C.G.S. \u00a7 14-202.1, a Class H felony with a maximum term of ten years and a presumptive term of three years, and three counts of first-degree rape, N.C.G.S. \u00a7 14-27.2, a Class B felony with a maximum term of life in prison.\nOn 16 July 1990, defendant was indicted in Randolph County for one count of first-degree rape of T.B., a child under the age of thirteen, and for one count of taking indecent liberties with T.B. The indictments allege that the offenses occurred on 15 March 1988. On 20 August 1990, defendant was indicted in Guilford County for another count of first-degree rape of T.B. Defendant was also indicted on 20 August 1990 in Guilford County for one count of first-degree rape of S.J., a child under the age of thirteen. Both of the indictments allege that the date of the offenses was \u201cJuly, 1985 thru July, 1987.\u201d Defendant filed a motion for a bill of particulars in these cases. The State responded in relevant part that, because of the young age of the children involved, it \u201c[could] not give a time of any occurrence,\u201d but that S.J. stated that it happened when she was six or seven years old and continued until she was nine, and T.B. stated that defendant \u201cbegan messing with me when I was four and continued until I was nine.\u201d Defendant made a pre-trial motion to dismiss the two Guilford County rape indictments on the ground that they fail to allege the date of the offenses with sufficient particularity to enable defendant to prepare an adequate defense in violation of N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-924(a)(4) and his constitutional rights. The trial court denied the motion.\nOn 26 November 1990, defendant was indicted in Randolph County for one count of taking indecent liberties with D.C., a child under the age of sixteen, which, according to the indictment, occurred on 15 July 1989. On 31 July 1991, defendant waived venue in the two Guilford County rape cases alleged to have occurred between July 1985 thru July 1987. These cases were moved to Randolph County and were consolidated for trial with the three Randolph County indictments. Defendant filed a written motion in limine in all the cases seeking an order instructing the district attorney and all witnesses for the State to refrain from mentioning in the presence of the jury any alleged prior acts of sexual misconduct on the part of defendant. The trial court denied defendant\u2019s motion in limine and instead decided to rule on the admissibility of the evidence as needed at trial.\nAt trial, the State presented the testimony of complainant S.J., who was fourteen years old at the time of trial. S.J. testified that when she was six or seven years old, she would visit defendant at his home and sometimes would spend the night. On one occasion when she spent the night at defendant\u2019s home in High Point along with her cousin, defendant played a \u201cdirty\u201d movie which S.J., her cousin, and defendant watched. They later went to sleep in defendant\u2019s room. S.J. woke up and found defendant unclothed and lying on top of her. According to S.J., defendant had his \u201cprivate\u201d inside of her, and that this had happened before.\nThe State also presented the testimony of complainant T.B., who was eleven years old at the time of trial. T.B. testified that when she was five or six years old, defendant took her and her cousin skating and then to his apartment in High Point to spend the night. T.B. awoke to find defendant\u2019s \u201chands on my private.\u201d T.B. also testified that defendant later moved to a house in Hillsville, where he built a swimming pool in the back yard during the second summer after he moved in. On one occasion during the first summer after defendant moved into the house in Hillsville, while visiting defendant, T.B. recalled defendant taking off his clothes and \u201csticking his penis inside\u201d her. T.B. testified that defendant had done the same thing \u201ca lot\u201d at his High Point residence.\nComplainant D.C., who was nine years old at trial, testified that one night when she was six or seven years old, she and a friend spent the night on a couch at defendant\u2019s house in Hillsville, and that it was after defendant built his swimming pool. D.C. testified that defendant woke her up in the middle of the night, took her hand, and placed.it \u201con his private.\u201d\nIn addition to testimony of the complainants, the State presented, over defendant\u2019s objection, as evidence of a common plan or scheme on the part of defendant to molest young girls the testimony of Cindy Kendrick and Lori Kuplin, both of whom were twenty years old at the time of trial. Kendrick testified that on one occasion when she was twelve or thirteen years old (prior to July, 1985), she, Lori Kuplin, and S.J. were at defendant\u2019s home. According to Kendrick, defendant made the girls watch adult films and later took S.J. to his bedroom where the two spent the night with the door locked. Lori Kuplin\u2019s testimony was essentially the same as that of Kendrick.\nAt the close of the State\u2019s evidence, defendant made a motion to dismiss the Randolph County charge of indecent liberties involving D.C. on the ground that the State failed to present sufficient evidence of the essential elements of the offense. Defendant also made a motion to dismiss the Randolph County indecent liberties and first-degree rape indictments involving T.B., on the ground that the evidence presented by the State in support of these indictments shows that the offenses occurred in the summer of 1987, and not on the dates alleged in the indictments \u201415 March 1988. Defendant\u2019s motions were denied by the trial court.\nDefendant presented evidence, including the testimony of a clinical psychologist who had administered a penile plethysmograph test to defendant. The psychologist testified that, based on the results of the test, in his opinion defendant did not have the mental condition known as pedophilia. At the close of all the evidence and after arguments of counsel and instructions, the jury convicted defendant on all charges. After sentencing, defendant filed a motion for appropriate relief pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1414, alleging, among other things, that members of the jury, including the alternate juror, were improperly discussing the case during breaks and prior to the submission of the case to the jury for deliberation. The trial court, after making detailed findings and conclusions, denied the motion. Defendant appeals.\nThe issues presented are whether the trial court committed reversible error in (I) refusing to dismiss for lack of specificity the rape indictments which allege that defendant committed one count of first-degree rape each against S.J. and T.B. in \u201cJuly, 1985 thru July, 1987\u201d; (II) refusing to dismiss the indecent liberties and first-degree rape indictments involving T.B. on the ground that the evidence presented at trial regarding the date of the offenses varied from the 15 March 1988 date alleged in the indictments; and (III) admitting pursuant to Rule 404(b) evidence of defendant\u2019s prior sexual misconduct involving young girls.\nI\nDefendant argues that the two first-degree rape indictments alleging the date of the offenses as \u201cJuly, 1985 thru July, 1987\u201d are fatally defective in that they fail to allege with specificity the date of the offenses in violation of N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-924(a)(4) and the United States Constitution.\nNorth Carolina Gen. Stat. \u00a7 15A-924 provides that a criminal pleading must contain\n[a] statement or cross reference in each count indicating that the offense charged was committed on, or on or about, a designated date, or during a designated period of time.\nN.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-924(a)(4) (1988). However, the failure to include in the indictment a designated date or period of time within which the offense occurred does not in every event require dismissal of the indictment. State v. Everett, 328 N.C. 72, 75, 399 S.E.2d 305, 306 (1991). If time is of the essence of the crime charged, the indictment must be dismissed under Section 924(a)(4) only if (1) there is an error in the date or period of time listed on the indictment, or the omission thereof, and (2) the error or omission misled the defendant to his prejudice. See State v. Oliver, 85 N.C. App. 1, 7, 354 S.E.2d 527, 531, disc. rev. denied, 320 N.C. 174, 358 S.E.2d 64 (1987) (because there was no error in the dates alleged in the indictment, even if time were of the essence in defendants\u2019 cases, the charges would not be subject to dismissal under Section 924(a)(4)); Everett, 328 N.C. at 75, 399 S.E.2d at 306. If time is not of the essence of the offense charged, the failure to state the time at which the offense was committed, or stating the time imperfectly, is not grounds for dismissal of the indictment. N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15-155 (1983). Our construction of the statutes at issue incorporates the rights afforded a criminal defendant under the United States Constitution. See 1 Charles Alan Wright, Federal Practice and Procedure: Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure \u00a7 125 at 381-83 (2d ed. 1982); 2 Charles E. Torc\u00eda, Wharton\u2019s Criminal Procedure \u00a7 249 (13th ed. 1990); Joseph G. Cook, Constitutional Rights of the Accused: Pre-trial Rights \u00a7 88 (1972).\nThus, the indictments in the instant case must be evaluated in the context of whether time is of the essence of the offense of first-degree rape. Because time does not constitute an element of first-degree rape, see N.C.G.S. \u00a7 14-27.2 .(1986), time is not of the essence of the crime. See State v. Wise, 66 N.C. 120, 122 (1872) (time is not of the essence of the offense unless time constitutes a part of the crime, e.g., time is of the essence of first-degree burglary because an essential element of first-degree burglary is the commission of the crime in the nighttime); State v. Baxley, 223 N.C. 210, 211, 25 S.E.2d 621, 622 (1943) (time is not of the essence of the offense of rape of a female under the age of sixteen). Accordingly, because in the instant case the failure of the indictments to allege any date on which the offenses occurred would not be grounds for dismissal of the charges, the designation of a two-year period is not grounds for dismissal.\nII\nDefendant argues that the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to grant defendant\u2019s motion at the close of the State\u2019s evidence to dismiss the indecent liberties and first-degree rape charges involving T.B. Specifically, defendant contends that T.B.\u2019s testimony at trial established that the offenses occurred during the summer before defendant built his swimming pool, which would have been the summer of 1987, not on 15 March 1988 as alleged in the indictments. Defendant contends that the variance in the proof at trial and the date alleged in the indictments requires dismissal of the charges.\nWhen time is not of the essence of the offense charged, a variance between the date alleged in the indictment and proof of the date at trial is not grounds for dismissal of the charges, provided that no statute of limitations is involved. N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-924(a)(4) (1988); Baxley, 223 N.C. at 211, 25 S.E.2d at 622. Because, based on our previous discussion, time is not of the essence of either of the felony offenses challenged by defendant, for which there is no statute of limitations, we reject this assignment of error.\nIll\nDefendant contends that the trial court committed prejudicial error by admitting pursuant to North Carolina Rule of Evidence 404(b) testimony regarding prior instances of defendant\u2019s sexual misconduct. Specifically, defendant contends that he was unfairly prejudiced by testimony that he made young girls watch adult films and. that he slept overnight in his locked bedroom with S.J.\nEvidence of a defendant\u2019s prior crimes, wrongs, or acts is admissible pursuant to Rule 404(b) if it is offered for a proper purpose, is relevant, has probative value which is not substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice to the defendant, and, if requested, is coupled with a limiting instruction. State v. Haskins, 104 N.C. App. 675, 679, 411 S.E.2d 376, 380 (1991), disc. rev. denied, 331 N.C. 287, 417 S.E.2d 256 (1992). It is well established that, to be admissible, evidence of a defendant\u2019s prior sexual misconduct offered to show a common plan or scheme must be sufficiently similar to the crime with which the defendant is charged and not too remote in time. State v. Jones, 322 N.C. 585, 589, 369 S.E.2d 822, 824 (1988). However,\n[w]hile a lapse of time between instances of sexual misconduct slowly erodes the commonality between acts and makes the probability of an ongoing plan more tenuous, the continuous execution of similar acts throughout a period of time has the opposite effect. When similar acts have been performed continuously over a period of years, the passage of time serves to prove, rather than disprove, the existence of a plan.\nState v. Shamsid-Deen, 324 N.C. 437, 445, 379 S.E.2d 842, 847 (1989) (citation omitted).\nThe State offered and the trial court admitted the testimony of which defendant complains pursuant to Rule 404(b) as evidence of a common plan or scheme on the part of defendant to win the trust of young girls in order to molest them. The testimony established that defendant, at least as early as 1983 or 1984, brought little girls to his residence to watch adult films and to spend the night with defendant in his bed. Other evidence presented by the State established that defendant continued to find opportunities to associate with young girls in order to molest them until 1989. We hold that the challenged testimony was properly admitted by the trial court as evidence of a common plan on defendant\u2019s part to molest young girls.\nWe note that defendant\u2019s repeated contention that the testimony was inadmissible under Rule 404(b) because the alleged misconduct \u201coccurred outside of the indictment period\u201d is illogical. \u201cPrior bad act\u201d evidence as a general rule encompasses evidence of a defendant\u2019s crimes, wrongs, or acts which are similar to and occurred prior to the crime with which defendant is charged. Thus, the evidence necessarily will encompass crimes, wrongs, or acts which occurred prior to the date or time period listed on the indictment. In addition, defendant\u2019s contention that evidence of prior instances of his alleged sexual misconduct is inadmissible under Rule 608 simply is without merit, as \u201c[ejvidence of wrongful acts admissible under Rule 404(b) is not within [the scope of Rule 608] and is admissible by extrinsic evidence or by cross-examination of any witness.\u201d N.C.G.S. \u00a7 8C-1, Rule 608 commentary (1992).\nIV\nDefendant raises several contentions which we summarily address.\nDefendant argues that \u201cthe trial court committed reversible error by failing to grant defendant\u2019s motion for an acquittal at the close of all the evidence\u201d because the evidence in each case was insufficient to justify submission of the case to the jury. Defendant makes no reference to the pages in the record which would reflect that he made such a motion, and an exhaustive review of the record reveals that defendant, in fact, did not move to dismiss the charges at the close of all the evidence. \u201c[I]f a defendant fails to move to dismiss the action ... at the close of all the evidence, he may not challenge on appeal the sufficiency of the evidence to prove the crime charged.\u201d N.C.R. App. P. 10(b)(3) (1993).\nDefendant argues that the trial court committed error by not granting defendant\u2019s motion for appropriate relief based on alleged jury misconduct. In his brief, defendant cites no authority to support his contentions in this regard, and we are not persuaded by his argument, in light of the trial court\u2019s detailed findings and conclusion that defendant was not prejudiced by the alleged discussions among some members of the jury prior to deliberations.\nWe have carefully reviewed defendant\u2019s remaining assignments of error and have determined that they are without merit.\nV\nThe State in its brief, although it did not, and could not, perfect an appeal in this case, raises the issue of whether the trial court erred when it allowed a licensed clinical psychologist to testify on defendant\u2019s. behalf regarding the results of a penile plethysmograph which he administered to defendant. As described by the psychologist, a penile plethysmograph is a device which, when placed on the human male penis, measures blood flow into the penis as various photographs are shown to the male. Having denied the State\u2019s petition for writ of certiorari, this issue of first impression in North Carolina is not properly before us.\nWith regard to the judgments in these cases,\nNo error.\nChief Judge ARNOLD concurs.\nJudge McCRODDEN concurs with separate opinion.", "type": "majority", "author": "GREENE, Judge." }, { "text": "Judge McCRODDEN\nconcurring.\nI concur in the result reached by the majority, but I do not believe that that opinion fully explores the problems inherent in indictments, such as the one in Case No. 91 CRS 101, alleging first degree rape of T.B. during a period spanning two years. N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 15A-924(a)(4) (1988) requires that a criminal pleading must contain a statement that \u201cthe offense charged was committed on, or on or about, a designated date, or during a designated period of time.\u201d Our courts have recognized and allowed the leniency afforded young witnesses whose concept of time is not precise, see, e.g., State v. Everett, 328 N.C. 72, 75, 399 S.E.2d 305, 306 (1991), and periods of time stated in indictments have increased to reflect the unfortunate fact that many cases involving sexual abuse of children continue undetected for months and years.\nThose facts, however, should not give prosecutors a false sense about their pleadings. In this case, for example, as counsel for defendant argued, evidence at trial showed that another first degree rape of T.B., the one charged in 90 CRS 6084 as occurring on 15 March 1988, actually occurred sometime in 1987, possibly within the two-year period of the first degree rape alleged by 91 CRS 101. This scenario raises the constitutional issue of double jeopardy, an issue the majority glosses over, in parts I and II of its opinion, by relying on that time-honored phrase that, where time is not of the essence of a particular crime, (I) the designation of a two-year period in the indictment is not fatal, and (II) a variance between the date alleged in the indictment and the date proved at trial is not grounds for dismissal. The case of State v. Wise, 66 N.C. 120 (1872), cited by the majority, stands for more than the majority indicated. In that case, while the Supreme Court acknowledged that time was not of the essence of the crime (arson) for which Wise had been indicted, it noted that \u201ctime has a most important effect upon the punishment,\u201d 66 N.C. at 124, because the date upon which Wise had committed his criminal deed would decide whether he received imprisonment under a law passed in 1869, or death under an 1871 act. The Court reversed the judgment based on the 1871 act, reserved for the future the question of whether the prosecutor could maintain a motion for judgment as upon a conviction under the 1869 act, and stated that, \u201cit may be that judgment cannot be pronounced as upon conviction on either one of the statutes, by reason of the uncertainty.\u201d Id. at 125.\nAbsent other evidence that defendant in the instant case had committed first degree rape of T.B. on a number of occasions, this Court would not be able to determine whether the jury convicted defendant of the two first degree rape charges found in 90 CRS 6084 and 91 CRS 101 on the basis of the single 1987 incident. Indeed, absent such evidence, time would have a \u201cmost important effect upon the punishment,\u201d because defendant would have received two consecutive life sentences for identical offenses based upon the same act, in violation of defendant\u2019s Fifth Amendment right not to be twice tried for the same offense. Only because there is ample evidence that defendant had sexual intercourse with the child on a number of occasions within this period, including possibly the date in 1987 used to convict him of the rape charge in the 90 CRS 6084 indictment, will I stand with the majority in finding no error.", "type": "concurrence", "author": "Judge McCRODDEN" } ], "attorneys": [ "Attorney General Lacy H. Thornburg, by Assistant Attorney General Ellen B. Scouten, for the State.", "Crumley & Biggs, by Bobby J. Crumley and T.C. McCahan, for defendant-appellant." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WILLIAM ANDREW McKINNEY\nNo. 9219SC131\n(Filed 1 June 1993)\n1. Indictment, Information, and Criminal Proceedings \u00a7 29 (NCI4th)\u2014 rape \u2014allegations as to dates not specific \u2014not grounds for dismissal\nIndictments for first-degree rape which alleged that the date of the offenses was July, 1985 through July, 1987 were not fatally defective because time is not of the essence of the offense and does not constitute an element of the offense. N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-924(a)(4).\nAm Jur 2d, Indictments and Informations \u00a7\u00a7 115-121.\n2. Indictment, Information, and Criminal Proceedings \u00a7 52 (NCI4th)\u2014 first-degree rape and indecent liberties \u2014time of offense \u2014 variance between indictment and evidence \u2014 not fatal\nCharges of first-degree rape and indecent liberties were not required to be dismissed where the indictments alleged that the offenses occurred on 15 March 1988 and the evidence at trial was that the offenses occurred in the summer of 1987. Time was not of the essence for either of the felony offenses and there is no statute of limitations.\nAm Jur 2d, Indictments and Informations \u00a7 268.\n3. Evidence and Witnesses \u00a7 374 (NCI4th)\u2014 rape and indecent liberties \u2014 prior instances of sexual misconduct \u2014 common plan or scheme \u2014 admissible\nThere was no error in a prosecution for first-degree rape and indecent liberties in the admission of evidence that defendant had made young girls watch films and that he slept overnight in his locked bedroom with a child under the age of 13 where the State offered the testimony as evidence of a common plan or scheme on the part of defendant to win the trust of young girls in order to molest them. The testimony established that defendant brought little girls to his residence to watch adult films and to spend the night in his bed at least as early as 1983 or 1984, and other evidence established that he continued to associate with young girls in order to molest them until 1989. Contrary to defendant\u2019s contention, \u201cprior bad act\u201d evidence necessarily will encompass crimes, wrongs, or acts which occurred prior to the date or time period listed in the indictment. Defendant\u2019s contention that evidence of prior instances of misconduct is inadmissible under N.C.G.S. \u00a7 8C-1, Rule 608 is without merit because evidence of wrongful acts admissible under N.C.G.S. \u00a7 8C-1, Rule 404(b) is not within the scope of Rule 608.\nAm Jur 2d, Rape \u00a7 73.\n4. Appeal and Error \u00a7 155 (NCI4th)\u2014 rape and indecent liberties \u2014motion to dismiss not made \u2014may not raise on appeal\nA defendant in a prosecution for first-degree rape and indecent liberties could not challenge on appeal the sufficiency of the evidence where he made no reference to the pages in the record which would reflect that defendant made such a motion and an exhaustive review of the record reveals that defendant did not move to dismiss the charges at the close of the evidence.\nAm Jur 2d, Appeal and Error \u00a7\u00a7 562 et seq.\n5. Criminal Law \u00a7 481 (NCI4th)\u2014 jurors conferring prior to deliberations \u2014 motion for appropriate relief denied \u2014no error\nThe trial court did not err in a prosecution for rape and indecent liberties by denying defendant\u2019s motion for appropriate relief based on alleged juror misconduct where the trial court made detailed findings and concluded that defendant was not prejudiced by the alleged discussions among some members of the jury prior to deliberations.\nAm Jur 2d, Trial \u00a7\u00a7 999 et seq.\nPropriety and effect of jurors\u2019 discussion of evidence among themselves before final submission of criminal case. 21 ALR4th 444.\nJudge McCRODDEN concurring.\nAppeal by defendant from judgments entered 10 September 1991 in Randolph County Superior Court by Judge W. Douglas Albright. Heard in the Court of Appeals 9 March 1993.\nAttorney General Lacy H. Thornburg, by Assistant Attorney General Ellen B. Scouten, for the State.\nCrumley & Biggs, by Bobby J. Crumley and T.C. McCahan, for defendant-appellant." }, "file_name": "0365-01", "first_page_order": 395, "last_page_order": 405 }