State v. Sanders

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

On his trial for aggravated rape, the jury found the defendant, Larry Sanders, guilty of that offense and fixed his punishment at 99 years in the penitentiary. In the bifurcated trial, it then found him guilty of being an habitual criminal and the trial judge sentenced him to life imprisonment.

The defendant first challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.

The state’s evidence, which the jury accredited, showed that early in April 1982, Kimberly Farmer, a five-year-old girl, went to a store to buy some candy. On leaving the store, a man,…