Dewey v. State

Defendant (Appellant) was convicted upon two counts each of kidnapping, armed rape and armed sodomy. He was sentenced to two concurrent life terms of imprisonment upon the kidnapping counts and to four consecutive fifteen year terms upon the armed counts. His appeal raises five issues.

ISSUES(1) Sufficiency of the evidence as to each verdict.(2) Correctness of the trial court’s denial of a defense motion to require the State to elect between the armed counts and the simple counts of rape and sodomy with which the defendant had also been charged.(3) Correctness of the trial court’s denial of…