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STATE v. SOCKBESON

430 A.2d 1105 (1981)

STATE of Maine v. Albert SOCKBESON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided June 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Cox, Dist. Atty., Gary F. Thorne (orally), Asst. Dist. Atty., Bangor, for plaintiff.

Paine & Lynch, John D. Bunker (orally), Martha J. Harris, Bangor, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and GODFREY, ROBERTS and CARTER, JJ.

CARTER, Justice.

The defendant, Albert Sockbeson, appeals from his conviction for incest following a jury trial in Superior Court (Penobscot County). We affirm the conviction.

The incest statute, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 556, provides:

A person is guilty of incest if, being at least 18 years of age, he has sexual intercourse with another person as to whom he knows he is related within the 2nd degree of consanguinity.

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