Hardegree v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Richard Scott Hardegree was convicted of rape, sodomy, and burglary. He enumerates five errors on appeal.

This case arose as the pregnant victim and her 11-year-old son slept. Price v. State, 222 Ga. App. 655, 657 (2) (475 SE2d 692) (1996) (evidence on appeal must be viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict). Hardegree crawled in a window, cut eye and mouth holes in a pair of the victim’s maternity underwear, placed it over his face, and woke the victim. Then he placed a razor to her throat and asked for money. He “said he was running from the law and he had been…