State v. Boone

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the trial court’s denial of his motion to dismiss the charges of attempted first-degree rape and first-degree sexual offense.

G.S. 14-27.2 provides in part:(a) A person is guilty of rape in the first degree if the person engages in vaginal intercourse:

* * * *(2) With another person by force and against the will of the other person, and:

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b. Inflicts serious personal injury upon the victim or another person; or ... .

G.S. 14-27.4, in pertinent part, reads as follows:(a) A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the first degree if the person…