ANDERSON, Justice, for the Court:
Statie Smith was convicted of rape in the Circuit Court of Marshall County and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. On appeal, Smith alleges that his confession was erroneously admitted into evidence and that he was entitled to a new trial because a relative of the victim sat on the jury. Finding no error, we affirm.
FACTS
On the night of May 7, 1985, a man broke into the victim's home, bound her arms with a...
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