RIDER v. STATE

4 Div. 17.

544 So.2d 994 (1989)

Robin RIDER v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.R. Herring of Herring, Bennett & Young, Dothan, for appellant.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Beth Jackson Hughes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


BOWEN, Judge.

Robin Rider was convicted of sexual abuse in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. He was given consecutive sentences of four years' and twenty years' imprisonment.

The defendant argues that his convictions are not supported by the evidence because there was no evidence of "forcible compulsion" as alleged in each indictment. We must agree.

Forcible compulsion is an element of the offenses of both sexual abuse in the first degree...

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