State v. Allen

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

A jury found appellant guilty of forcible rape and assessed his punishment at 45 years in accordance with which the court imposed sentence. Appellant seeks reversal upon points I and II, that his motion to suppress his confession should have been sustained because there was no evidence that he intelligently waived the right to counsel, and that the court erred in finding, as a matter of law, that he waived his right to counsel; III, that a mistrial should have been declared when witness Farmer referred to evidence of other crimes, “rape and robbery charges”; IV, that…