State v. Terrill

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal by defendant Ricky Lee Ter-rill involves several rulings by the trial court in a prosecution for rape under § 698.-1, Code 1973.

The State’s evidence showed that defendant followed Dorothy Ann Cockhren from a tavern late at night, threw her down in a vacant lot, choked her, took off her slacks and undergarment at gunpoint, and forcibly raped her. She was hospitalized for a week following the incident. Defendant, who at the time of the incident lived with his grandmother, Allie Bea, did not testify at the trial.

The county attorney charged defendant with rape, a…