Hardaway v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellant was charged in the Washington County Circuit Court with kidnapping two teenaged girls and committing the crime of rape against both of them. The proof showed that he kidnapped the girls in Washington County, committed rape against both of them in Washington County, committed rape against one of them in another county, and took them across the state line into Memphis. A parallel prosecution was commenced in Federal District Court because of the interstate aspect of the crimes. Appellant was convicted on each of the four counts charged in circuit court. We…