Dougan v. State

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

A jury sentenced Ronald Dougan to forty years’ imprisonment for rape. Dougan raises four arguments for reversal. Finding no merit to these arguments, we affirm Dougan’s conviction.

Ronald Dougan was charged by information with raping his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter on February 20, 1994. At trial, the victim testified that Dougan sexually violated her on five occasions prior to February 20, 1994. According to the victim, Dougan touched her in a sexually explicit manner once when she was six years old, and twice when she was eleven. The victim claimed that in…