Johnson v. State

Bowles, Justice.

The appellant, Nick Johnson, was convicted of rape, kidnapping and aggravated sodomy. He was sentenced to three twenty-year terms to run consecutively. Appellant filed a motion for new trial on the general grounds and upon denial of his motion he appealed to this court.

The following evidence was introduced: On the night of June 13, 1976, the victim was at her mother-in-law’s house where she got into a verbal altercation with her husband, which resulted in her leaving the house at approximately 2 o’clock in the morning. The victim walked one or two blocks before a van, occupied…