So "UNSOUND MIND" in section 2 doesn't work, huh? Unsound mind in the legal world also means "Infirmity of mind".
"The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
The girl was in a debilitated state. Also intoxication is a form of "poisoning". She wasn't capable of giving consent. And forensic evidence could clearly have created a timeline of events which would have shown time spans and when she was potentially able to give consent.
Know of guys who like having sex (an act to achieve a sexual orgasm) with a passed out girl, guy, goat, monkey and really believes that it's okay to do so?????
The problem is that under the rape statute, "unsound mind" and "intoxicated" and "unconscious" are three different criteria. Therefore, if neither intoxication nor unconsciousness are part of "unsound mind" as criteria for rape, neither can be considered part of "unsound mind" in any other part of the law unless specifically stated.
Let's look again:
Forcible Sodomy is: B. The crime of forcible sodomy shall include:
1. Sodomy committed by a person over eighteen (18) years of age upon a person under sixteen (16) years of age; or
2. Sodomy committed upon a person incapable through mental illness or any unsoundness of mind of giving legal consent regardless of the age of the person committing the crime; or
3. Sodomy accomplished with any person by means of force, violence, or threats of force or violence accompanied by apparent power of execution regardless of the age of the victim or the person committing the crime; or
4. Sodomy committed by a state, county, municipal or political subdivision employee or a contractor or an employee of a contractor of the state, a county, a municipality or political subdivision of this state upon a person who is under the legal custody, supervision or authority of a state agency, a county, a municipality or a political subdivision of this state; or
5. Sodomy committed upon a person who is at least sixteen (16) years of age but less than twenty (20) years of age and is a student of any public or private secondary school, junior high or high school, or public vocational school, with a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and is employed by the same school system.
Rape is
§21-1111. Rape defined.
A. Rape is an act of sexual intercourse involving vaginal or anal penetration accomplished with a male or female who is not the spouse of the perpetrator and who may be of the same or the opposite sex as the perpetrator under any of the following circumstances:
1. Where the victim is under sixteen (16) years of age;
2. Where the victim is incapable through mental illness or any other unsoundness of mind, whether temporary or permanent, of giving legal consent;
3. Where force or violence is used or threatened, accompanied by apparent power of execution to the victim or to another person;
4. Where the victim is intoxicated by a narcotic or anesthetic agent, administered by or with the privity of the accused as a means of forcing the victim to submit;
5. Where the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this fact is known to the accused;
........ (rest of the statute not included due to length.
So you cannot claim that "incapable through mental illness or any unsoundness of mind of giving legal consent" includes being intoxicated or unconscious in the Forcible Sodomy definition but not the Rape definition. Note that NOBODY is saying that what this guy did was okay. We're just saying it wasn't illegal as the law is currently written.