Wright v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Deen, Presiding Judge.
The appellant, Otha Wright, was convicted of burglary, rape, and aggravated sodomy. This appeal followed.
At approximately 4:00 a.m. on January 24,1983, Ophelia Marks awoke to find a man in her bed. This assailant, armed with a knife, then raped her. The victim’s daughter, evidently awakened by the disturbance, appeared in her mother’s doorway, whereupon the victim, at the assailant’s instruction, informed her that she was all right. The daughter returned to her bedroom, and the assailant departed shortly afterwards; moments later, however, a second man entered the…
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