Strawhacker v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

This case involves an appeal from a rape conviction and first degree battery conviction, where the appellant, Lonnie Strawhacker, received a life sentence for rape, as an habitual offender, and thirty years for first degree battery, with the two sentences to run concurrently. The appellant argues four points on appeal, and the state as appellee raises one further point under Supreme Court Rule 11(f).

The facts were related by the victim at trial. The appellant did not testify. On Friday night, August 11,1989, the victim went by herself to a nightclub called The Rink in…