McNeil v. State

SUGG, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Jones County. The defendant, Tony Earl McNeil, was convicted of the crime of forcible rape and was sentenced to serve a life term in the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

The record shows that near midnight on September 1, 1971, the victim and her male companion were parked in the victim’s automobile on a dead-end road near a ballpark in Laurel. The couple had been parked for approximately 20 minutes when another automobile, occupied by three black men and two white men, arrived on the scene. The victim testified that four of the…