State v. Johnson

GUNN, Judge.

This is a case of rape, sodomy and kidnapping.

Two young women, 18 and 19 years of age, had the misfortune of running out of gas on their way home. Three men stopped their car alongside the girls for the ostensible purpose of lending aid. Instead of helping, the men forced the girls into their auto, drove them to a field a mile or two away and forced them to submit to rape and sodomy. The girls were then forcibly taken some distance to a shack where they were again raped and sodomized by the original three assailants and joined now by the defendant who fully participated in the…