Long v. State

This is an appeal by Reuben Long, an indigent, who was convicted of rape by a circuit court jury in Macon County, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment.

During trial, appellant filed a motion to exclude the State's evidence, and that motion, along with his subsequent motion for a new trial, was denied. An application for probation was made and denied and notice of appeal was given.

The pertinent facts in this case are that the victim was a student at the Macon County Retardation Rehabilitation Center, whose director is Mrs. Sally Lowe Richardson. Mrs. Richardson testified that the school is…