Taylor v. State

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following his conviction on two counts of rape, 1 one count of incest, 2 and two counts of aggravated assault, 3 Melvin Taylor appeals, arguing that the court erred in failing to (i) merge the incest count into one of the rape counts, (ii) admit evidence of the subsequent rape of one of the victims, and (iii) find he received ineffective assistance of counsel. Discerning no error, we affirm.

Construed in favor of the verdict, the evidence shows that Taylor tied his 10-year-old daughter and his 12-year-old niece to bedposts and forced each protesting girl to have…