Rose v. Locke

Respondent was convicted in the Criminal Court for Knox County, Tenn., of having committed a “crime against nature" in violation of Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-707 (1955).1 The evidence showed that he had entered the apartment of a female neighbor late at night on the pretext of using the telephone. Once inside, he produced a butcher knife, forced his neighbor to partially disrobe, and compelled her to submit to his twice performing cunnilingus upon her. He was sentenced to five to seven years’ imprisonment. The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction, rejecting respondent’s *49claim…