State v. Bessey

NICHOLS, Justice.

The Defendant, Harry Bessey, appeals from a judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict returned in the Superior Court, Somerset County, on April 15, 1980, finding him guilty of the rape of a five-year-old child at Fairfield in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 252(1)(A) (Supp.1980). 1 The issues on appeal address the sufficiency of the evidence to support the Defendant’s conviction and a requested jury instruction which he asserts was omitted to his prejudice.

We affirm the judgment of conviction.

Reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, as we are…