Shelton v. State

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

During the early morning of March 21, 1977, Anthony Shelton in a state of intoxication banged on the door of a house in Alakanuk, Alaska and demanded to be let in. Shelton told the woman who occupied the house that he was a relative of her husband (who was then hospitalized in Be-thel) and threatened to burn the place down if she did not let him in. Alarmed, she admitted him. Once in the house he at*25tempted to rape her, threatening to kill her and her daughter if she did not cooperate, but ran away when the victim’s daughter escaped to a neighboring house…