Huffman v. State

The appellant, Michael Eugene Huffman, was convicted of first degree rape, a violation of § 13A-6-61, Ala. Code 1975, and was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment. The victim claimed that the appellant raped her in her apartment one night after he had escorted her there from a nightclub. The appellant testified on his own behalf and adamantly denied the charge of rape; he admitted that he and the victim had had sex, but he claimed that it was consensual.

I

The appellant first contends that what he describes as the physical and verbal "antics" of the prosecutor during defense examination of…