State v. Langeneckert

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

The State charged defendant in separate counts with sodomy and child molestation. A jury found him guilty on both counts and pursuant to the Second Offender Act the trial court assessed his punishment at 75 years’ imprisonment for sodomy and five years’ imprisonment for child molestation, the sentences to run consecutively. He appeals.

*478On October 15,1973 defendant committed various sexual acts with a 12-year-old girl. As he left her house the girl’s mother saw him; her cries for help were answered by the girl’s grandfather who lived nearby. The grandfather gave chase,…