Jackson v. State

720 S.W.2d 282 (1986)

290 Ark. 375

Willie Louis JACKSON, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

No. CR 86-101.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

November 24, 1986.

John H. Bradley, Deputy Public Defender, Blytheville, for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by William F. Knight, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

NEWBERN, Justice.

The appellant was charged October 31, 1984, with rape of a child less than eleven years old by sexual intercourse and deviate sexual activity by forcible compulsion. Ark.Stat.Ann. § 41-1803 (Repl.1977). This statute has since been amended to make the "statutory rape" age…