Cole v. State

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

On August 28, 1990, the appellant, John Antonio Cole aka Tony Cole, was convicted of rape and carnal abuse in the second degree and sentenced as an habitual offender to forty years and ten years, respectively, in the Arkansas Department of Correction with the sentences to be served consecutively.

Cole alleges six points of error on appeal: 1) that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a directed veredict on the charge of rape, 2) that the evidence on the element of forcible compulsion was insufficient to support a conviction of rape, 3) that the trial…