Grayer v. State

This appeal is from an order of the trial court, entered after an evidentiary hearing, denying the appellant’s fourth motion filed under Rule 1.850 CrPR, 33 F.S.A., for relief from a conviction for statutory rape. The indictment on which conviction was based charged the defendant with having committed statutory rape upon a child under 10 years of age, who was shown to have been his daughter. Initially the defendant pleaded not guilty. When called to trial he changed his plea to guilty. He was so adjudged, and was given a life sentence which he is now serving.

The grounds presented on the…