LASITER v. STATE

No. CR 86-100.

717 S.W.2d 198 (1986)

290 Ark. 96

Jim James Junior LASITER, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 13, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Witt Law Firm by R. Kevin Barham, Paris, for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Robert A. Ginnaven, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of having raped his eight-year-old niece once in 1983 and five times on successive Sundays in 1984, while his sister-in-law, the child's mother, was away from the home occupied by the three of them. The jury imposed six life sentences, which were made to run concurrently. The sufficiency of the evidence has not been questioned. The primary issue for the jury was that of credibility as between the prosecutrix...

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