Slater v. State

The appellant, Archie Slater, was indicted and convicted of one count of sodomy in the second degree, in violation of §13A-6-64 Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On appeal, appellant raises four issues for this court's consideration.

The state's evidence tended to prove that the appellant, a former teacher of the victim's, sodomized the victim on several occasions during his early years in high school. The victim testified that the appellant and he would take trips together and that on these trips, they would have oral sex. He testified as to several specific…