Locke v. State

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

Harold Locke was charged and, convicted of committing a “crime against nature” as proscribed by T.C.A. § 39-707 against Minnie R. Rogers, and his punishment set at not less than five (5) nor more than seven (7) years in the penitentiary. The State’s theory of the case was that Locke entered the apartment of a neighbor, Mrs. Rogers, late at night on the pretext of using the telephone, presented a butcher knife, and forced Mrs. Rogers to submit to two episodes of cunnilingus. This theory is adequately supported by the evidence, if we can say that what the victim testified…