APPELLATE COURT OPINIONS

The application for permission to appeal from the convicition of aggravated rape and a Range I sentence of 25 years was granted in part, to consider two of the several issues decided by the Court of Criminal Appeals, which affirmed the conviction and the sentence.  In those isues, the appellant insists that the delay in initiating the prosecution was a violation of his constitutional rights to a speedy trial and due process and that the sentence imnposed is excellive.  The conviction and the sentence are affirmed.