Daffron v. State

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

The appellant, Rickey Hale Daffron, was sentenced to consecutive sentences totaling fifty years for two counts of rape and one count of criminal attempt to commit rape. On appeal, he argues that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdicts for criminal attempt to commit rape and rape, and that the trial court should have granted his motions for directed verdict of acquittal in this regard. We affirm the trial court’s actions.

At trial, Daffron’s counsel stated to the trial court that he was relying on his “standard motions for judgment of acquittal based…