State v. Terry

COIL, Commissioner.

Doris Terry was convicted of burglary in the first degree and of forcible rape and sentenced in accordance with the jury’s separate verdicts to five years in the penitentiary for each crime. Defendant appealed but has filed no brief. We, therefore, shall rule the 25 assignments of error in his motion for new trial.

Prior .to a consideration of those assignments, however, we examine a matter which relates to the validity of the jury’s verdicts which found defendant guilty of two separate and distinct felonies and on each of which defendant was sentenced to five years in the…