Smith v. State

|TIn 2001, petitioner James E. Smith was found guilty by a jury of two counts of rape for engaging in sexual intercourse with his girlfriend’s daughters when they were both under the age of fourteen. Petitioner had taken the stand at trial and admitted that he had sex with the victims, but he contended that they were eighteen and twenty years old when the acts occurred and that both had consented. Petitioner was sentenced to a term of twenty years’ imprisonment for each count to be served consecutively. The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed. Smith v. State, CR02-228, 2003 WL 57416 (Ark. App.…