McMorris v. State

Rape; twenty years imprisonment.

In June, 1978, the prosecutrix lived alone at 1042 48th Place, North in an apartment complex in the community of Kingston in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. About 3:00 A.M. on June 15, 1978, the prosecutrix was awakened by a naked black man sitting on her chest and holding his hands over her mouth and her throat. The prosecutrix was told that if she did not make any noise she would not be hurt. According to the prosecutrix, they began to scuffle on the bed, and her attacker hit her on the head and in the eye. The prosecutrix recalled that, when she asked…