Cook v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Robert James Cook, was indicted and convicted for rape in the first degree in violation of Alabama Code Section 13A-6-61 (1975). He was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment without parole. This conviction must be reversed because the trial judge refused to give Cook’s written requested instructions.

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The victim was the only witness who testified that Cook raped her. In Cook’s defense, the victim’s neighbor testified that both the victim’s general reputation and her general reputation for truth in the community were bad, and that she would…