State v. Thompson

SWOFFORD, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged by information with the crime of sodomy. He was tried before a jury, found guilty, and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

The only material witnesses in the trial below were the complaining witness, R-P_, a girl aged 14 years, and the defendant. R_ P_testified to the bizarre events which occurred on July 18, 1974, during the course of her baby-sitting with a neighbor’s children, which culminated in the act of sodomy charged against the defendant, another neighbor. This occurred in his apartment in the late hours of the night. It involved a…