Patterson v. State

W. J. HARALSON, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of rape and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

After the verdict he filed a motion for a new trial which was overruled by the court.

The testimony, which was voluminous, presented a sharp conflict between that offered by the State tending to show the guilt of appellant and that offered by the appellant in which he denied guilt and attempted to set up an alibi. By his testimony and that of his witnesses he accounted for his presence at his home or the home of his relatives during the span of time the State’s prosecuting witness…