STATE v. MITCHELL

No. 17697.

491 N.W.2d 438 (1992)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Dennis MITCHELL, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided September 16, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Barnett, Att. Gen., Karen E. Cremer and Ronald D. Campbell, Asst. Attys. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee.

Lee Schoenbeck, Webster, for defendant and appellant.


MILLER, Chief Justice.

Dennis Mitchell appeals his conviction on six counts of rape in the second-degree. We affirm.

FACTS

In October, 1978, Mitchell married Geraldine. S.D. is Geraldine's 21-year-old daughter. At the time Dennis and Geraldine married, S.D. was eight years old. Initially, S.D. and her new stepfather had a good relationship. However, the relationship began to subtly change when S.D. became a teenager. At this time, Mitchell began...

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