State v. Goforth

HILL, Judge.

The defendant was found guilty of the attempted first-degree rape of his 10-year-old stepdaughter in violation of G.S. § 14-27.6. The issues before us involve the propriety of the trial court’s admission of evidence of defendant’s prior sexual misconduct and the propriety of the trial court’s imposition of a sentence in excess of the presumptive prison term prescribed by G.S. § 15A-1340.4(f). This Court finds no error.

The State offered evidence that early on the morning of 4 July 1981, defendant carried his sleeping stepchild from the room she shared with her older sisters to his…