State v. Upham

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

The defendant, Bruce L. Upham (Up-ham), presents his second appeal to this court on this occasion after a trial justice of the Superior Court denied his second motion for reduction of his sentence. We deny the appeal and affirm the sentences imposed.

Upham was convicted by a jury on November 3,1978, on a four-count indictment 1 charging rape; the abominable and detestable crime against nature, sodomy; burglary of a dwelling; and assault with a dangerous weapon. The trial justice initially imposed the following sentences:

Count 1 — life imprisonment, to run consecutively to…