STATE v. PARTON


694 S.W.2d 299 (1985)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellant, v. Gary Michael PARTON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

July 22, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond S. Leathers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellant; W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen., Nashville, of counsel.

Edward Nethery, Ray E. Cate, Knoxville, for appellee.


OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of aggravated rape and sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary. The only issue in this Court is whether evidence of a similar prior criminal act was properly admitted at trial.

Defendant, Gary Parton, was twenty-one years of age at the time of the alleged offense, had attended a slow-learning school and was educated to approximately the tenth grade level. The alleged victim, Doug Case, was...

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