Guy v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant below, John E. Guy, appeals from his conviction of rape and sentence to ten years in the penitentiary.

The proof showed that the victim, Lucille Crawford, a thirty-eight-year-old Negro woman, closed her place of business in Memphis at about 10:30 P.M. on November *36820, 1965, and went next door to Charlie’s Grill. There she had several drinks of whiskey with two other women and one John Echols, age twenty-two. The defendant, also a Negro, accompanied by four young white men, came into the grill. One of them played the jukebox and the victim was about to…