Smith v. State

|Jn 2001, petitioner James E. Smith was found guilty by a jury of two counts of rape for engaging in sexual intercourse with his girlfriend’s daughters when they were both under the age of fourteen. Petitioner testified at trial that he had sex with the victims, but he contended that they were eighteen and twenty years old when the acts occurred and that both had consented. Petitioner was sentenced to two consecutive terms of twenty years’ imprisonment. The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed. Smith v. State, CR-02-228 (Ark.App. Jan. 8, 2003) (unpublished) (original docket no. CACR 02-228).

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