Patterson v. State

Anthony Patterson was indicted and convicted for rape in the first degree in violation of Alabama Code 1975, § 13A-6-61, and sodomy in the first degree in violation of § 13A-6-63. Patterson was sentenced in each case as an habitual offender to life imprisonment without parole.

On appeal, he contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions. Specifically, Patterson contends that the State's own evidence points to someone else as being the guilty party.

The nine-year-old victim testified that one morning in early June, after her mother had left for work, her stepfather, this…