State v. Deanes

MEYER, Justice.

Defendant Danny Mark Deanes was convicted of the first-degree rape of a five-year-old girl and sentenced to life imprisonment. Having reviewed the four assignments of error defendant has presented, we find no error in his trial.

The State’s evidence, in pertinent summary, showed the following: in early May of 1987, the defendant Danny Mark Deanes was living in the home of the victim’s mother. Also living there were the five-year-old victim, her younger sister, her mother, and her mother’s boyfriend. The house was small, with three rooms— a living room, a kitchen, and one…