State v. Carico

OPINION

LYLE REID, Special Justice.

The application for permission to appeal from the conviction of aggravated rape and a Range I sentence of 25 years was granted in part, to consider two of the several issues decided by the Court of Criminal Appeals, which affirmed the conviction and the sentence. In those issues, the appellant insists that the delay in initiating the prosecution was a violation of his constitutional rights to a speedy trial and due process and that the sentence imposed is excessive. The conviction and the sentence are affirmed. 1

I

In May 1980, the victim’s mother married the…