State v. Jones

HAYS, Chief Justice.

The defendant, John Lewis Jones, appeals from a judgment entered on the jury’s verdict finding him guilty of' first degree rape and burglary and from a sentence of 9 to 15 years on the burglary conviction and 99 to 100 years for rape. The two sentences are to run consecutively.

The state’s case primarily consisted of the testimony of two witnesses. The first witness for the state was the prosecutrix who testified concerning the details of the attack. The prosecutrix identified the defendant as the attacker from a group of ten mugshot-type photographs shown to her several…