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    "judges": [
      "Judges Braswell and Eagles concur."
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      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. JOSEPH GRAY ALFORD"
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        "text": "HEDRICK, Judge.\nThe sole question presented for review is whether the trial court erred by admitting into evidence pictures of defendant\u2019s hands and testimony explaining those pictures. The victim testified that she had bitten the defendant on what she thought was a finger of his right hand. A deputy sheriff testified that when defendant was taken into custody, his left thumb appeared to have been severed. The deputy was then allowed to explain his testimony by using three photographs of defendant\u2019s hands taken at the time of arrest. The photographs were admitted into evidence for the purpose of illustrating the deputy sheriffs testimony.\nTo obtain a new trial, defendant must show that he was prejudiced by some error of the court, and that a different result would likely have occurred if the court had not erred. State v. Jones, 278 N.C. 259, 179 S.E. 2d 433 (1971); State v. Patton, 45 N.C. App. 676, 263 S.E. 2d 796 (1980); State v. Sanders, 276 N.C. 598, 174 S.E. 2d 487 (1970), reversed on other grounds, 403 U.S. 948, 29 L.Ed. 2d 860, 91 S.Ct. 2290 (1971). Assuming arguendo that it was error for the court to admit the testimony regarding defendant\u2019s left hand and illustrative pictures, defendant has failed to show how he was prejudiced by its admission. We are, therefore, compelled to find,\nNo error.\nJudges Braswell and Eagles concur.",
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        "author": "HEDRICK, Judge."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Rufus L. Edmisten, by Assistant Attorney General Steven F. Bryant, for the State.",
      "Angus B. Thompson, Jr., for the defendant, appellant."
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. JOSEPH GRAY ALFORD\nNo. 8316SC378\n(Filed 6 December 1983)\nCriminal Law \u00a7 169.5\u2014 admission of testimony as harmless error\nIn a robbery, kidnapping and rape prosecution in which the victim testified that she had bitten defendant on what she thought was a finger of his right hand, defendant failed to show that he was prejudiced by an officer\u2019s testimony that at the time defendant was arrested his left thumb appeared to have been severed and by photographs illustrating such testimony.\nAppeal by defendant from Herring, Judge. Judgments entered 28 September 1982 in Superior Court, ROBESON County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 29 November 1983.\nDefendant was charged in proper bills of indictment with armed robbery, kidnapping and rape.\nDefendant was convicted of kidnapping and attempted second degree rape, and from judgments imposing consecutive prison sentences of twenty years for kidnapping and five years for attempted rape, he appealed.\nAttorney General Rufus L. Edmisten, by Assistant Attorney General Steven F. Bryant, for the State.\nAngus B. Thompson, Jr., for the defendant, appellant."
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