Haney v. State

Banke, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of rape, sodomy, armed robbery, and kidnapping with bodily injury. He appeals the denial of his motion for new trial, alleging that the evidence was insufficient to support the rape and sodomy convictions.

Neither enumeration of error has merit. The testimony concerning the sodomy was explicit. The rape was established by the victim’s testimony that, after she had been abducted at knifepoint, beaten repeatedly, and forced to submit to sodomy, the appellant "laid me down on the back seat and raped me.” This testimony was amply corroborated by other…