State v. Pitts

DECUIR, Judge.

liThe Defendant, Willie R. Pitts, was indicted by a grand jury with aggravated rape, a violation of La.R.S. 14:42. Following a bench trial, he was found guilty of the lesser offense of forcible rape, La.R.S. 14:42.1. The Defendant, fifty-two years old at the time of the offense, was sentenced to serve forty years at hard labor, the first two years without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. The Defendant is now before this court on appeal, challenging his conviction in four assignments of error. For the following reasons, we affirm the Defendant’s conviction…