Legal Opinion

Wicks v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided October 20, 1980No. CR 79-194PublishedCited by 368 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

George Rose Smith, Justice.

By an information containing two counts the appellant was charged with having raped the same woman twice, once on August 17 and again on September 26, 1978. The prosecutrix testified to both occurrences, but the court, without objection, submitted only a verdict form permitting the jury to find the defendant guilty of rape, rather than of two separate offenses. The jury found Wicks guilty and fixed the punishment at life imprisonment. We find no merit in the six points that are argued, nor any other reversible error.

The prosecutrix testified that she did not know…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. State v. MeiersSupreme Court of Missouri · 1967
  2. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. MurphySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
  3. Harding v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
  4. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1943
  5. Spears v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1978

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3Cited by368 opinions

  1. Bowen v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1995
  2. Anderson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2003
  3. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2007
  4. Rector v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1983
  5. Perry v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1982

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