Thomas v. State

DOMINICK, Circuit Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction for rape with a sentence of twenty-five (25) years imprisonment.

I

The State’s evidence is to the effect: That around 11 o’clock in the evening of October 10, 1970, the prosecutrix left her home on McKinney Street in Mobile, Alabama, in her automobile to pick up her mother-in-law at Scott Paper Company; she made a wrong turn on U. S. Highway 45 and her car stalled at the foot of a viaduct in Prichard, Alabama, so she started walking toward a Rebel gasoline station a couple of blocks away which was lighted, presumably to get to a…