Starnes v. State

Carley, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of rape, attempted rape, incest, cruelty to children, and four counts of aggravated sodomy. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered by the trial court on the jury’s guilty verdicts.

1. The victim was, in each instance, appellant’s own daughter. The various crimes had occurred either in 1984, when appellant’s daughter was 11, or in 1988, when she was 15. The State sought to introduce evidence that appellant had previously committed similar offenses. That evidence showed the following: In 1955,…