Carter v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of the crimes of incest, child molestation and statutory rape. Defendant was sentenced to confinement for a period of 20 years for the statutory rape offense. (It was ordered that upon service of 12 years of the sentence, defendant could serve the remaining 8 years on probation provided that he obtain treatment for pedophilia.) The trial court determined that the incest and child molestation charges (which is not an issue before us in the case sub judice) merged with the offense of statutory rape. Accordingly, separate sentences were not…