Gaines v. State

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

Anthony Gaines appeals from his criminal conviction for rape. Gaines was charged by felony information filed on March 16, 1992 with the crime of raping a fifteen-year-old girl on or about November 16,1991. We affirm.

The prosecuting attorney requested that Gaines be sentenced under our felony sentencing statute for habitual offenders, Ark. Code Ann. § 5-4-501 (1987), on the basis that Gaines had previously been convicted of two felonies. The record reflects that Gaines was previously convicted of aggravated assault and false imprisonment in the first degree and…