Roberts v. State

The appellant was indicted and convicted for rape in Mobile County, Alabama. In accordance with the verdict and punishment fixed by the jury, the trial court entered judgment and sentenced the appellant to ten years in the penitentiary.

We should, perhaps, begin the recitation of the facts with the phrase "once upon a time" so bizarre and unique is the testimony in this case. According to the testimony presented by the State, Clarissa Roberts, the prosecutrix, and her two sisters, Gloria Ann and Bonnie Jean, along with two male companions, were in the Club Debonaire in Mobile County on the…