Burton v. State

Carley, Chief Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of one count of rape, three counts of aggravated sodomy, and three counts of kidnapping. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences that were entered by the trial court on the jury’s guilty verdicts.

1. Appellant enumerates the general grounds. The jury was authorized to believe the victims, who identified appellant as the perpetrator of the offenses, rather than appellant’s witnesses, who provided him with an alibi. “[T]he jury is not bound to accept the evidence introduced of alibi as true; the jury…