Hughes v. State

RUCKER, Judge.

This case presents the issue of whether the physical restraint of a victim combined with verbal threats and sexually explicit requests for sex constitute a substantial step toward the commission of a rape. We find they do and therefore affirm.

On February 13, 1991, at approximately twelve o'clock noon, the sixteen-year-old victim in this case was walking to a convenience store in Fort Wayne, Indiana,. A block or so away from the store a male subject, later identified as the defendant Edgar Hughes, approached the victim and began walking with her. Hughes began propositioning the…