Sartin v. State

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In separate indictments, Randy Joe Sartin was charged with the offenses of rape in the first degree by forcible compulsion, in violation of § 13A-6-61, Code of Alabama 1975, and of sodomy in the first degree by forcible compulsion, in violation of § 13A-6-63, Code of Alabama 1975. On motion of the State, the court consolidated the cases for trial. The jury found Sartin guilty of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree, as charged in the…