State v. Terrell

UDALL, Vice Chief Justice:

Appellant, hereinafter called defendant, brings this appeal from a conviction of rape and kidnapping.

Near midnight, defendant and his wife returned home from an evening out. Defendant told the victim, a 13-year-old babysitter, he would take her home. The girl got into defendant’s car and was driven to a secluded spot on a dirt road near a cotton field, and forcibly raped. Defendant was charged with rape and kidnapping, convicted, and sentenced to serve a term in the state penitentiary for 30 years to life.

The appeal is brought on purely technical grounds. Defendant…