Graham v. State

Chad Graham was accused of engaging in sexual intercourse and deviant sexual activity with his teenage daughter, D.C., on multiple occasions in his Elkins, Arkansas, home and in his Fayetteville, Arkansas, barbershop. A circuit court, sitting as the trier of fact, convicted Graham of committing two counts of rape and sentenced him to two concurrent twenty-year terms of imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction.

On appeal Graham does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence that the State presented or the circuit court's finding of guilt. Instead, he argues that the court…