State v. Thomas

WELBORN, Special Judge.

Appeal from judgment of conviction and sentence to 50 years’ imprisonment, entered on jury verdict finding Frederick Thomas, Jr., guilty of forcible rape.

At around 5:00 P.M., January 26, 1974, as Valerie H., a cocktail waitress at the *576Alameda Plaza Hotel in Kansas City, was leaving her place of employment, she was accosted in the parking garage by a man who asked her to assist him with some difficulty he was having with his automobile. At his direction, she sat down on the front seat of his auto. He shoved her over into the car, pointed a knife at her and asked where…