State v. Bridges

COZORT, Judge.

On 16 April 1990 defendant was charged with first-degree rape, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury on a handicapped person, and felonious breaking or entering. Upon a jury verdict of guilty on all three counts, the trial court imposed a life sentence for the first two consolidated charges and a ten-year consecutive sentence for the third charge. Defendant appeals. We find no error.

The State presented evidence that an eighty-three-year-old wheelchair-bound woman was beaten and raped in her home in Charlotte on the evening of 14 May 1989. The…