Canard v. State

Richard B. Adkisson, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Bobby Canard, was convicted by a jury of rape and was sentenced to forty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. The only issue on appeal is whether there is sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction. We affirm.

Testimony at trial revealed that on December 12, 1980, appellant picked up his daughter at the home of his ex-wife and took her to Wal-Mart, where he purchased some boots for her. They ate supper at the Sonic Drive-In. Afterwards, while driving towards Grubbs, Arkansas, he turned off onto a gravel road and raped her. The…