Jenkins v. State

CONOVER, Judge.

Tony Jenkins appeals the Jefferson Circuit Court's denial of his petition for post conviction relief.

We affirm.

A jury in 1983 found Jenkins guilty of rape, battery, and burglary. He took the pregnant victim out of her home to a vacant lot and there raped and stabbed her twice with a steak knife taken from her home. While stabbing her the second time, he stabbed himself in the leg. Although the victim could not identify Jenkins as her assailant, he had a stab wound on his leg, his blood type was the same as that of the assailant, and tape recordings containing admissions against…