State v. Parton

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of aggravated rape and sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary. The only issue in this Court is whether evidence of a similar prior criminal act was properly admitted at trial.

Defendant, Gary Parton, was twenty-one years of age at the time of the alleged offense, had attended a slow-learning school and was educated to approximately the tenth grade level. The alleged victim, Doug Case, was seven years of age at the time he says he was anally raped by defendant. He testified that the crime occurred after Christmas in 1979, “or 1980, the…