Wilson v. State

John Michael Wilson, alias John Maxie Walters, III, was indicted by a Mobile County grand jury for rape in the first degree. He was convicted by a jury, adjudicated guilty by the trial court, and sentenced to life imprisonment. This appeal follows.

According to the testimony of the prosecutrix, she worked late and arrived home at her apartment in Mobile at about 9 p.m. on the evening of April 7, 1982. She was carrying several packages in her arms, and as she walked into the kitchen a man, whom she positively identified at the trial as the appellant, "jumped out at me with a knife at my throat…