Turbyfill v. State

Larry D. Vaught, Judge.

Mark Turbyfill appeals his conviction of rape. He received a sixty-year sentence after a jury found him guilty of raping an eight-month-old girl. On appeal he argues that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict and that the trial court erred in allowing medical witnesses to testify regarding the cause of the child’s injury. We find no error and affirm.

Because of double-jeopardy concerns, we first consider Turbyfill’s sufficiency-of-the-evidence argument — that the trial court erred in its denial of his motion for directed verdict. King v. State, 338 Ark.…