Smith v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Jerome Smith, appeals his conviction of the offenses of burglary, rape and aggravated sodomy. The victim and her four-year-old daughter lived alone in her apartment. The jury was authorized to find from the evidence presented that on the night of August 13, 1985, the defendant entered the victim’s apartment through a window by removing an outside screen, and then raped and sodomized her. Before leaving, he took from her purse two small packets, one plastic packet containing ten MARTA tokens, and the other containing pennies. Her next door neighbor saw…