State v. Jacobs

UDALL, Vice Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence on charges of rape, kidnapping, and robbery. The facts, as they relate to the offenses charged, are these: On the morning of May 24, 1961, the prosecuting witness was sleeping on a screened porch adjacent to her house trailer home. She and her two daughters, aged 2 and 4 years, had returned to sleep after her husband and son left the home about 4:30 a. m. At about 7:30 or 8:00 a. m. she was awakened by the voice of the defendant at the door of the screened porch asking for a drink of water. She told him to go to the back…