Jemison v. State

HARALSON, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for rape, with sentence fixed at ten (10) years imprisonment.

Briefly, the state’s evidence tended to show that on the night of July 1, 1971, somewhere between 9:45 and 10:30 P.M., this prosecutrix was driving an automobile from her home to her husband’s restaurant, when she stopped at a traffic light at a street intersection in Tuscaloosa; that a *291Negro man suddenly opened the door on the passenger side of the car, got in and forced her to drive him, first toward home on his pretext of getting out, and failing in that he…