State v. McGaha

295 S.E.2d 449 (1982)

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Gene McGAHA.

No. 109PA82.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 5, 1982.

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. W. Dale Talbert, Raleigh, for the State.

Haywood, Denny & Miller by Charles H. Hobgood and George W. Miller, Jr., Durham, for defendant-appellant.

CARLTON, Justice.

Gene McGaha, a forty-year-old college graduate, was indicted for committing a sex offense under G.S. 14-27.4(a)(1) (1981). The statute states that "[a] person is guilty of a sexual offense in the first degree if the person engages in a sexual act: (1) [w]ith a victim…