State v. Green

CARLTON, Justice.

I

At trial, evidence for the State tended to show that on the night of 26 August 1980 Mary Shaw, a seventy-eight-year-old female, awoke from her sleep and saw a man standing in the doorway to her bedroom. Mrs. Shaw lived with her daughter and grandson in her daughter’s home, but she was alone in the house that night. She recognized the intruder as the defendant, David Green, a friend of her grandson’s. Defendant walked to her bed and hit her on the side of her head. He dragged her from the bed, forced her to the floor, and raped her. During the struggle, Mrs. Shaw begged him…