Reeves v. State

Smith, Judge.

This case arises out of an escalating pattern of harassment and attacks on a former girlfriend by appellant Johnnie Reeves. The evi dence at trial authorized the jury to find that, despite attempts at intervention by judicial and law enforcement authorities, Reeves culminated his harassment of the victim by entering her house, threatening her with a knife, having sex with her against her will, stabbing her 14 times with various sharp objects, and fleeing in her car with her purse and keys.

Reeves was indicted by a Baldwin County grand jury on two counts of aggravated assault and…