Hall v. State

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment of conviction for the offense of rape, with punishment fixed at imprisonment for 23 years. Defendant, recently discharged from the Army, was 23 years of age.

The alleged victim of the assault, Mrs. Verner McKinley, resided in the country beyond Northport and about six miles from the City of Tuscaloosa, where she and her husband had resided alone for some 11 years. While Mr. McKinley was away at work and Mrs. McKinley was alone in the house, about 1:30 p.m. of August 15, 1945, the defendant Louis Hall knocked on the front door and was…