State v. Vansant

|2The defendant, Rory Dean Vansant, was charged by grand jury indictment with aggravated incest, a violation of La. R.S. 14:78.1.1 He pled not guilty and, following a jury trial, was found guilty as charged. The defendant was sentenced to thirty-five years imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. The defendant now appeals, designating one assignment of error.

FACTS

Ten-year-old D.D.2 and her sister, C.D., who was about three years older, lived in Slidell with their paternal grandparents. When D.D.’s mother, Kathrine, married the defendant, she…