State v. Harwood

Defendant appeals his conviction on five counts of rape in the first degree upon his daughter. He had been charged by two different grand juries with eight counts of rape, two counts of sexual abuse in the second degree and one count of sodomy in the first degree. One rape count was dismissed on the state’s motion before trial and defendant was acquitted on the remaining charges.

Defendant assigns as error the following:

1) Failure to suppress evidence seized from defendant’s home pursuant to a search warrant predicated on an affidavit which contained allegedly stale information;

2) Failure to…