Sanders, J. Patrick A. DeRyke argues he was denied due process of law because the jury instruction for attempted rape neither specified the degree of rape he allegedly attempted nor set forth the elements of the crime of rape in the first degree, thereby forcing the jurors to refer to other instructions or to speculate as to the elements of the offense. We hold the instruction was constitutionally infirm but find the error harmle…
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