State v. Wright

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant appeals his jury conviction of statutory first-degree rape. The trial court sentenced defendant to prison for life.

The record shows that the grand jury indicted 32-year-old defendant for the offense of having sexual intercourse with defendant’s 11-year-old stepdaughter on approximately 28 January 1988, in violation of N.C.G.S. § 14-27.2 (1986). Prosecutrix was twelve years old at the time of trial.

During trial, the State adduced prosecutrix’s testimony that defendant had intercourse with her a number of times before the date for which defendant was indicted, and that…