State v. Golden

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Taylor County, entered June 14, 1983, which sentenced the appellant, Robert Lee Golden, Jr., to a term of life imprisonment as an habitual criminal after he was convicted of the crime of first degree sexual abuse, a felony. We find error in the appellant’s underlying conviction, and we reverse the judgment of the circuit court on that ground.

The underlying felony charge arose from an incident which allegedly occurred on November 15,1982. The appellant had just moved into a trailer located behind the home of his maternal grandmother,…