Legal Opinion
State v. Sockbeson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 17, 1981PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARTER, Justice.
The defendant, Albert Sockbeson, appeals from his conviction for incest following a jury trial in Superior Court (Penobscot County). We affirm the conviction.
The incest statute, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 556, provides:
A person is guilty of incest if, being at least 18 years of age, he has sexual intercourse with another person as to whom he knows he is related within the 2nd degree of consanguinity.
The sole issue raised by the defendant’s appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to support a finding that the defendant and the prosecutrix were “related within the 2nd degree of…
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