Henderson v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

The appellant, Darnell Henderson, was convicted of First Degree Rape, in Pitts-burg County District Court, Case No. F-83-226,, was sentenced to forty (40) years imprisonment, and he now appeals.

On June 9, 1983, at approximately 4:00 a.m., seventy-six-year-old D.M. was awakened by a knock at the door of her home in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. Peering from her bedroom window, she was unable to determine the intruder’s identity, but she was able to see that he was wearing blue jeans. She warned him to leave or she would shoot him. A few minutes later, however, she heard a noise in…