State v. Ridley

The defendant, Stanley Arthur Ridley, Jr., appeals from a judgment and sentence entered after a verdict of guilty on each of three counts charging certain moral offenses against each of his three stepchildren (i.e., count No. 1 charged indecent liberties against a boy then aged 9; count No. 2, indecent liberties against another boy then aged 7; and count No. 3, sodomy against a girl then aged 4. For obvious reasons, the names of the children are not used.

The appellant’s contentions are that the evidence does not justify the verdict on any count, and, most vigorously urged, that the trial…