Jones v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted for the offenses of kidnapping, rape, aggravated sodomy and robbery. He was convicted and sentenced for the offenses of rape and robbery, receiving a sentence of 20 years on the rape count and 20 years on the robbery count to run concurrently with the sentence on the rape count. The jury found him innocent of kidnapping and aggravated sodomy. The defendant’s motion for new trial, as amended, was thereafter denied, and he appeals. Held:

1. The state’s evidence was based largely upon the testimony of the victim that after she left work in the late…