State v. Hicks

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

Under a four-count indictment the defendant was convicted of two counts of aggravated rape, one of a stepdaughter, and the other of a stepson, and received sentences of 20 years each which were ordered to run concurrently.

In the first count of the indictment it was charged that:

“on a certain day of_, A.D., 1980, and subsequent thereto in the county of Roane [the defendant] did then and there unlawfully and feloniously accomplish sexual penetration of [the victim], a child less than 13 years of age, contrary to the form of the statute, et cetera.” Count three of the…