Truluck v. State

The appellant has been convicted and sentenced in the Circuit Court for Jefferson County, Florida, upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of the crime of rape without recommendation of mercy. The primary issue made upon appeal relates to the sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction upon this charge as opposed to assault with intent to rape.

The events out of which the charge arose occurred in the early morning hours of March 24, 1957. The prosecutrix, a twenty year old white woman, was alone in her home with her two infant children after her husband left for work at approximately 3…