McCollum v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

In 1972 the appellant, Raleigh 0. McCollum, married Helen Mc-Collum, who had three children by a previous marriage. On May 6, 1984, when threatened with a disciplinary whipping by the appellant, one of the appellant’s stepdaughters, then seventeen years old, told her mother that the appellant had performed various sexual acts with her from the time she was eight years old until she was fourteen. The appellant subsequently was indicted for and convicted of both child molestation and aggravated sodomy, from which this appeal followed. Held:

1. The appellant contends that…