Carroll v. State

Appellant, Melon Carroll, was convicted of Rape, Ind. Code § 35-13-4-3, being Burns § 10-4201, and Kidnapping, Ind. Code § 35-1-55-1, being Burns § 10-2901, in a trial before Special Judge David McNamar. He was sentenced to a term of two to twenty-one years for Rape and to life imprisonment for Kidnapping. His motion to correct errors was overruled. On appeal, he argues that there was not sufficient evidence to support either of the two convictions.

The evidence presented by the prosecuting witness was that she left her job at the hospital at or a little after midnight, August 2nd-3rd, 1973.…