HARRISON, Justice.
Melvin Lander Barnett was indicted for abduction and rape and, having waived a jury trial, was convicted by the court below and sentenced to serve eight years in the penitentiary for each offense. On this appeal he questions the sufficiency of the evidence to support the convictions.
On June 9, 1974, at approximately 11 p. m., the victim, age seventeen, and her husband, age eighteen, were walking and pushing their bicycles along Argonne...
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