Williams v. State

Appellant was convicted of first degree rape and second degree kidnapping. He was sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment for the rape and eight years', concurrent, for the kidnapping.

The state's evidence tends to show that James Michael Williams, the appellant, had recently been promoted to the position of Chief Jailer of the Macon County Jail in Tuskegee. On the morning of July 1, 1984, he released two of the three women who were in the jail, leaving one, whom we shall refer to only as Lolita, alone with him. The previous night, Lolita had been arrested on a second degree assault charge.…