State v. McCrary

Weltner, Justice.

1. The trial court granted McCrary’s motion to set aside two of three sentences imposed for convictions of statutory rape, relying upon the rule enunciated in LaPan v. State, 167 Ga. App. 250 (305 SE2d 858) (1983), as follows:

The trial court erred in imposing separate sentences for each of the three convictions of rape. The three charges differed from one another only with respect to the averment of date, and in none of the three was the date made an essential element. Since all the dates alleged fall within the period of the statute of limitation, only one sentence can be…