Ferguson v. State

Smith, Judge.

Eugene Ferguson was charged with thirteen crimes resulting from two incidents in which two women were raped in their apartments in the same complex. Two counts of burglary and a robbery count were dead-docketed. The trial court directed a verdict as to an armed robbery charge. A jury acquitted him of one count of rape, aggravated assault, one count of burglary, and one count of kidnapping, and found him guilty of one count of rape, OCGA § 16-6-1 (a), one count of burglary with intent to commit rape, OCGA § 16-7-1 (a), one count of kidnapping, OCGA § 16-5-40 (a), aggravated…