Sanders v. State

OPINION

Ellis Sanders, the appellant, was found guilty of rape. The sole issue raised on appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence as to the victim’s identification of Sanders as the perpetrator of the crime.

The defendant, Sanders, contends that due to an inconsistency in the victim’s description of her assailant made shortly after the attack upon her and testimony offered by Sanders as to his appearance on the date the criminal act took place, and the nature of the circumstances of the attack, in that the victim only observed her assailant momentarily after just awakening from a nap and only…