Howard v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Daniel Howard was convicted of rape and burglary. He enumerates eight errors on appeal, five of which challenge the sufficiency of the evidence and will be addressed collectively.

This case arose after Howard asked the 26-year-old victim, a mentally retarded woman, for a glass of water. Price v. State, 222 Ga. App. 655, 657 (2) (475 SE2d 692) (1996) (evidence on appeal must be viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict). Howard had been mowing a nearby lawn and observed the victim as she walked home from her aunt’s house. The victim knew Howard from his acquain tance…