Franklin v. State

Paul Alexander Franklin was indicted on October 14, 1980, for attempted rape. The jury found him "guilty as charged" and the trial court sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment.

The prosecutrix testified that on April 30, 1980, she left her school, Cloverdale Jr. High School, around 2:30 p.m. and walked to her home. She arrived there, at _____ Ponce de Leon Avenue, approximately five minutes later and entered through a living room window as she often did when she forgot her house key. As she walked into the bathroom of her home, someone broke an empty wine bottle and a "piggy bank" over her…