Logan v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

Jimmy Lee Logan, a sixteen-year-old boy, was convicted in Lee County Circuit Court of raping a twenty-seven-year-old unmarried girl in Auburn, Alabama. Logan appealed from his conviction and twenty-four year penitentiary sentence to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. On April 24, 1973, the cause was transferred to this Court, pursuant to Title 13, § 111(11a), Code of Alabama 1940, Recompiled 1958.

It appeared on the trial that the victim had been window-shopping in Auburn the night of the crime. As she was walking home, several males dragged her into the bushes alongside…