FIELDS v. STATE

No. 47801.

293 So.2d 430 (1974)

Theodoria FIELDS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Firnist J. Alexander, Jr., Jackson, Constance Iona Slaughter, Forest, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by John C. Underwood, Jr., and Karen Gilfoy, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


BROOM, Justice:

Life imprisonment was the sentence given appellant upon his conviction for the crime of forcible rape. Trial was in the Circuit Court of Lowndes County, Mississippi. We affirm.

The prosecutrix, an MSCW student, and two other young MSCW students (all were females), on October 23, 1972 at about 7:30 p.m., had just finished their clean-up chores at a camp house of Mr. Ben Owen in a wooded area of Lowndes County. They intended later to use the...

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