State v. Ward

CROCKETT, Chief Justice.

Fay Ward, Jr. appeals from a conviction by a jury of the crime of rape. He charges that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict and that prejudicial errors were committed in rulings on evidence.

The prosecutrix testified that in the early morning (near 5 a. m.) of October 11, 1958, she awoke to find a stranger, later identified as the defendant, in the doorway to her bedroom; that she had a chance to see him clearly, both by a lighted match he held and by the bedroom light which she turned on; and that despite her vigorous and continued resistance he…