JASPER E. JONES, Judge.
The defendant, Paul Wesley Ruple, was convicted by a jury of attempted aggravated rape. R.S. 14:27 and 14:42. The district judge imposed a sentence of thirty years at hard labor in the custody of the Department of Corrections. Ruple appeals his conviction and sentence. We affirm.
Mrs. R, a 78 year old widow, was attacked and raped in the bedroom of her residence in Homer, Louisiana, during the predawn hours of March 21, 1982. The victim...
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