Copeland v. State

Shulman, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from appellant’s conviction of one count of incest and two counts of statutory rape. The victim was appellant’s 12-year-old granddaughter.

1. In his first enumeration of error, appellant raises the general grounds, contending that the state failed to corroborate the testimony of the victim as is required in a statutory rape case by Code Ann. § 26-2018. The record refutes that argument. There was medical testimony supportive of the victim’s testimony, evidence of the victim’s complaint at her first opportunity to do so, and evidence showing that appellant…