Supreme Court of Alabama September 6, 2002, 1010263 (J.A.P. v. State)

lead-opinion

WOODALL, Justice.

A delinquency petition was filed in the Jefferson Juvenile Court, charging J.A.P., a 14-year-old male, with the attempted first-degree rape of his 9-year-old half sister, L.P. The charge was based on allegations that J.A.P. attempted to commit the offense of first-degree rape, as that offense is defined in § 13A-6-61(a)(l), Ala. Code 1975. See also § 13A-4-2, Ala.