Bliss v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a second appeal. In 1983 the appellants Charles and Sharon Bliss, husband and wife, were separately charged with the rape of Sharon’s son, who was seven or eight years old when the acts occurred. The child was Charles’s stepson. The original informations charged each defendant with rape by sexual intercourse or by deviate sexual activity.

The two cases were consolidated before the first trial, at which the jury found each defendant guilty of rape. Upon the first appeal we held that the trial judge had erred in not requiring the prosecutor to file a bill of…