HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Judge Tim Chambers Wednesday sentenced a 48-year-old man to a year and eight months in prison, but then granted Woodson “Woody” Crable one year on community corrections.
A Reno County jury found Crable “not guilty” of three charges of rape, two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and kidnapping, but found him “guilty” on two counts of domestic battery and criminal threat. The domestic battery conviction was an alternative charge to aggravated battery.
In the first case against Crable, the jury didn’t buy the argument that a woman was raped back on Dec. 26, 2011, however, they did agree that he threatened her during the second encounter on Dec. 28 of that same year.
They also didn’t agree with the state’s contention that the alleged second victim had been raped on April 9 and 10 of 2014. But they did agree that Crable battered her.
He was given the maximum sentence that could be given on the two lower level felonies.