Rockett v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

In separate indictments, the Shelby County grand jury charged the defendant Dorris Norvell Rockett, Jr., with rape of Emma McFarland and with robbery of her with a deadly weapon. He filed a special plea of insanity at the time of the offense. On trial of the two cases together, the jury found him guilty of rape and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment and also convicted him of simple robbery with ten years’ maximum imprisonment. The trial judge fixed the five to ten years’ robbery sentence concurrent with the life sentence for rape but both consecutive to…