Mosley v. State

Bradley D. Jesson, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Tommy Ray Mosley, was convicted of rape and sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment. On appeal, he argues that the State’s evidence was insufficient to satisfy the forcible compulsion element of rape, and that the trial court erred in allowing a State’s witness to testify at trial when the State had not complied with the rules of discovery. We affirm.

The State elicited the following testimony at trial. The victim, Sherry Christian, testified that she went to the Horse Shoe Bar in Hot Springs around 7:00 p.m. She was upset over a…