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STATE v. LUDLUM

No. 75.

281 S.E.2d 159 (1981)

STATE of North Carolina v. Hurtis Kliney LUDLUM.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Guy A. Hamlin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

James R. Prevatte and Richard S. Owens III, Southport, for defendant-appellant.

EXUM, Justice.

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether testimony by a four-year-old girl that defendant "touched me ... with his tongue ... between my legs" while indicating the place of touching to the jury constitutes sufficient evidence of "cunnilingus" to support a conviction for a first-degree sexual offense. We hold that it does.

To convict a defendant of a first-degree sexual offense with a child of twelve years

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