Bailey v. State

Doris Watson testified that appellant, Bruce Lamont Bailey, a former boyfriend, accosted her as she was walking near her home. He forced her into a room at the Oasis Motel, where he kept her bound and gagged for twenty-four hours. She was beaten, whipped with an electrical cord and raped repeatedly. The testimony of a physician and nurse who examined her after she escaped established the presence of male sperm in her vagina, “numerous whelps and bruises” on her body and a “significant amount” of trauma to the external vagina. She was fifteen years old.

The appellant did not testify. The theory…