Legal Opinion
State v. Stukes
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 24, 1989No. 89-KA-0449PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Judge.
Romallis Stakes was indicted by the Orleans Parish Grand Jury on September 23, 1987 for the aggravated rape of his four-year old daughter. The defendant elected a non-jury trial and on December 17, 1987 he was found guilty as charged. On January 7, 1988, defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.
The defendant appeals, assigning as error insufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction of rape.
FACTS
On August 23, 1987, the defendant’s four-year old daughter disclosed to a babysitter that her father had…
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