State v. Lovelace

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fromme, J.:

William N. Lovelace appeals from judgment and sentences imposed after a jury trial in Sedgwick County, Kansas. He was convicted of aggravated sodomy (K.S.A. 21-3506) and of taking indecent liberties with a child (K.S.A. 1979 Supp. 21-3503).

Lovelace is a fifty-year-old man. The victim, a fourteen-year-old boy, and his family had been acquainted with Lovelace for seven or eight years. The boy and Lovelace had been together for various activities such as bowling and movies at least fifty times during the period of their acquaintance. Appellant…