TUCKFIELD v. STATE

No. 4569.

621 P.2d 1350 (1981)

Joseph P. TUCKFIELD, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

January 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Cannon, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

James P. Doogan, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty. and Harry L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Fairbanks and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

Joseph Paul Tuckfield was convicted by a Barrow jury of rape1 and assault with intent to rape.2 The offense took place in the early morning hours of July 6, 1978, on the covered stairway of a Barrow store; the victim was an acquaintance of Tuckfield. During the rape he knocked her unconscious by banging her head on the stairway when...

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