WINTERS v. STATE

No. 54928.

473 So.2d 452 (1985)

Curtis Wayne WINTERS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 24, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Hill, Ronald W. Lewis, Hill & Lewis, Oxford, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and DAN M. LEE and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

It is hard to understand just what dark forces would impel a young male of 15 years to stalk, assault and rape an elderly woman who unsuspectingly entered a church building on a hot July Sunday afternoon in broad open daylight, if you will, yet that is the situation we face here. All of the facts save penetration are uncontested and the evidence there is adequate.

Though the case was vigorously defended at trial...

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