Highsaw v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Presiding Judge:

The appellant, Kevin Lee Highsaw, was convicted in the District Court of Tulsa County, Case No. CRF-83-629, of First Degree Rape and Sodomy and was sentenced to ten years’ and five years’ imprisonment, respectively, with the sentences to run consecutively.

Mr. Highsaw had turned seventeen years old just ten days before the victim was raped on February 1, 1983. The first assignment of error the appellant advances is that persons under the age of eighteen years could not be charged with first degree rape at the time this offense was committed. This argument is based…