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A jury found Alvin Dexter Sanford guilty of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a knife during the commission of a felony, and theft by taking a motor vehicle in connection with the fatal stabbing of 93-year-old John Robinson. Sanford appeals his convictions, claiming error in the trial court’s failure to redact portions of his videotapted interview with police and in the trial court charging the jury on alcoholism. For the reasons which follow, we affirm.1 The evidence construed in favor of the verdicts showed that around 3:00 or 3:30 p.m. on August 17, 2006, Jerome Mitchell, who was the grandson of John Robinson and Amanda Phillips, Robinson’s deaf and bedridden elderly housemate, found Robinson’s body in the pair’s home. The elderly five-foot-three-inch, 118-pound Robinson died as a result of two stab wounds to his chest. Mitchell last saw Robinson alive at 11:00 p.m. the previous day.

Robinson’s daughter, Carolyn Sanders, had planned on picking up $700 from Robinson on August 17th to pay his bills, as was their monthly arrangement. Days before being stabbed, Robinson complained to Sanders that Sanford, who assisted Robinson in exchange for staying at Robinson’s and Phillips’s home, had been asking him for money. Sanford was present when Mitchell left Robinson’s and Phillips’s home on August 16th. Between 1:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. on August 17th, neighbors witnessed Sanford leave the home erratically driving Robinson’s Ford Taurus.

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