People v. Renfrow

The defendant appeals his convictions of rape, deviate sexual intercourse, and menacing and his sentencing as an habitual criminal. We affirm but remand for resentencing.

I

The defendant first argues that the trial court erred in joining a charge of forcible rape occurring on March 24, 1973, with an unrelated deviate sexual intercourse charge committed on a different female on March 10, 1973, for purposes of trial on the sanity issue. He contends that he was erroneously prejudiced by (1) the admission of evidence of other crimes and (2) the sheer increase in the number of charges. The trial…