Tuckfield v. State

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

Joseph Paul Tuckfield was convicted by a Barrow jury of rape 1 and assault with in tent to rape. 2 The offense took place in the early morning hours of July 6, 1978, on the covered stairway of a Barrow store; the victim was an acquaintance of Tuckfield. During the rape he knocked her unconscious by banging her head on the stairway when she attempted to cry for help. Superior Court Judge Jay Hodges sentenced Tuck-field to concurrent sentences of twenty years for the rape and fifteen for the assault. Tuckfield has appealed both his conviction and the court’s sentence.

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