State v. Sikes

The defendant appeals from a 12-year penitentiary sentence imposed in Multnomah county after he was convicted by a jury of the crime of rape.

The defendant’s first contention that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of a related crime is wholly without merit. The defendant forced the victim into his car, drove to a secluded spot and by violence and threats of violence forced her to perform oral sodomy on him. Thereafter, defendant fearing discovery because of the screams of his victim, drove to a more secluded spot where he forcibly raped the victim. At the place where the first…