State v. Winston, 105 R.I. 447, 450, 252 A.2d 354, 356 (1969)
In a prosecution for murder, photographs "which are shown to be faithful representations of the victim at the time in question, are in the discretion of the trial court, admissible into evidence as an aid to the jury in arriving at a proper understanding of the evidence as proof of the corpus delicti, the extent of injury, the condition and identification of the body[,] or for their bearing on the question of the degree of atrociousness of the crime * * *."
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