COPELAND v. STATE

62627.

160 Ga. App. 786 (1982)

287 S.E.2d 120

COPELAND v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided January 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Patrick Ward, for appellant.

Gilbert J. Murrah, District Attorney, Edward C. Parker, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


SHULMAN, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from appellant's conviction of one count of incest and two counts of statutory rape. The victim was appellant's 12-year-old granddaughter.

1. In his first enumeration of error, appellant raises the general grounds, contending that the state failed to corroborate the testimony of the victim as is required in a statutory rape case by Code Ann. § 26-2018. The record refutes that argument. There was medical testimony...

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