Blakely v. State

A jury found defendant guilty of an assault upon a named and identified woman with the intent forcibly to ravish her; the court sentenced him to imprisonment for fourteen years.

The victim, who the record indicates is a young lady in the most sublime sense of that word, was a student at the University of Alabama and was in the vicinity of a girls dormitory, where she roomed, about 9:00 P.M. Sunday, August 24, 1975, when she was suddenly and violently thrown into the front seat, on the passenger's side, of an automobile, by a man standing beside the automobile, whom she was never able to…