State v. Snyder

LOWENSTEIN, Presiding Judge.

Snyder appeals judgments of conviction for forcible rape, armed criminal action, forcible sodomy and kidnapping. The consecutive sentences on the convictions total sixty-five years. The sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury verdicts is not in question, so the facts will be briefly recounted.

The victim, a Ms. Scates, was driving an automobile toward her home in Lexington at about 3:30 in the morning after having been drinking beer. In the community of Buckner she pulled onto the shoulder of Highway 24 and fell asleep in the car. She was awakened sometime…