Legal Opinion
State v. Fortney
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided August 15, 1980No. 56PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARLTON, Justice.
I
The evidence tended to show that on 5 May 1979 Georgia Guthrie Shepard, a 23-year-old cocktail waitress, returned to her home in a Raleigh apartment complex after work at approximately 2:00 a.m. While still in the parking lot, she was accosted by a man armed with a gun who grabbed her and forced her to a sitting position between two cars with his arm around her neck. At his order, she stopped screaming, took off her clothes and walked to her car.
Once in the car, her assailant had oral sex with her against her will, then forced her to have intercourse. Finished, he drove her…
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