Gross v. State

The defendant, Allen Gross, was charged with the crime of rape. In a trial by jury, before Special Judge Baron LaGrange, Gross was found guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of fourteen years. Thereafter, his motion to correct errors was overruled and he now appeals.

The record discloses the following: One evening, the victim, who was then fifteen years old, went to a carnival in the Greenwood Shopping Center parking lot with her sister and a friend. While the three girls were walking through the parking lot, three young men in a car pulled up beside them and started asking the…