Rudolph v. State

JOINER, Judge.

Melvin Rudolph was convicted of one count of first-degree rape by forcible compulsion,. see § 13A-6-61(a)(l), Ala.Code 1975, one count of first-degree rape of a child less than 12 years old, see § 13A-6-61(a)(3), and one count of first-degree sexual abuse by forcible compulsion, see § 13A-6-66(a)(l), Ala.Code 1975. Rudolph was sentenced to serve 50 years’ imprisonment for each rape conviction and 10 years’ imprisonment for the sexual-abuse conviction; those sentences were ordered to be served consecutively.1

The State’s evidence at trial tended to show the following. S.G., who…