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· 5/9/1988

Webb v. Lambert

Citations

  • 295 Ark. 438
  • 748 S.W.2d 658
  • 1988 Ark. LEXIS 238

How courts have described this case

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  • given the absence of any corroboration requirement in the rape statute, a victim’s testimony that she was raped by someone matching the defendant’s description was sufficient to sustain the rape conviction
  • given the absence of any corroboration requirement in the rape statute, a victim’s testimony that she was raped by someone matching the defendant’s description was sufficient to sustain the rape conviction
  • “[T]he testimony of a single witness is generally sufficient to establish a fact[,] . . . [a]nd the General Assembly long ago removed the corroboration requirement from the rape statute.” (punctuation and footnote omitted)

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Judges: Dudley, Glaze, Hays, Holt

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