{ "id": 1891337, "name": "Major Allen JONES v. STATE of Arkansas", "name_abbreviation": "Jones v. State", "decision_date": "1989-01-23", "docket_number": "CR 88-153", "first_page": "499", "last_page": "501", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "297 Ark. 499" }, { "type": "parallel", "cite": "763 S.W.2d 655" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "296 Ark. 41", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1892765 ], "weight": 2, "year": 1988, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/296/0041-01" ] }, { "cite": "292 Ark. 391", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1871131 ], "weight": 2, "year": 1987, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/292/0391-01" ] }, { "cite": "295 Ark. 499", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1893810 ], "weight": 4, "year": 1988, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/295/0499-01" ] }, { "cite": "Ark. Code Ann. \u00a7 5-14-103", "category": "laws:leg_statute", "reporter": "Ark. Code Ann.", "year": 1987, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "(a)(3)" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "294 Ark. 345", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1895824 ], "weight": 3, "year": 1988, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/294/0345-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 286, "char_count": 3491, "ocr_confidence": 0.882, "pagerank": { "raw": 1.0335390444786537e-07, "percentile": 0.5488472493956211 }, "sha256": "3151c12c9be6dfd7a03382711303245f3d2294700822158098adcae61ab7a793", "simhash": "1:d2eb4088799f1299", "word_count": 584 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:24:39.933112+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Major Allen JONES v. STATE of Arkansas" ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Tom Glaze, Justice.\nAppellant was convicted of raping a thirteen-year-old girl and was sentenced by a jury to sixty (60) years imprisonment. On appeal, he argues the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. We disagree, and therefore affirm.\nOn appellate review of a criminal case, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the state to determine whether the verdict is supported by substantial evidence. Williams v. State, 294 Ark. 345, 742 S.W.2d 932 (1988). Evidence is substantial if the jury could have reached its conclusion without having to resort to speculation or conjecture. Id. A person commits rape if he engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual activity with another person who is less than fourteen (14) years of age. Ark. Code Ann. \u00a7 5-14-103(a)(3) (1987). In rape cases, the requirement of substantial evidence is satisfied by the rape victim\u2019s testimony. Lewis v. State, 295 Ark. 499, 749 S.W.2d 672 (1988); Cope v. State, 292 Ark. 391, 730 S.W.2d 242 (1987). When determining the sufficiency of the evidence, we consider only the testimony that tends to support the verdict of guilty. See, e.g., Gardner v. State, 296 Ark. 41, 754 S.W.2d 518 (1988).\nIn reviewing the record in the present case, we conclude the state\u2019s evidence clearly supports the appellant\u2019s rape conviction. The prosecutrix testified that on October 30, 1987, she missed her school bus, and that, as she was returning from phoning her mother from a public phone, the appellant called for her to come over to talk to him. According to her testimony, he was standing on the outside stairs of his apartment complex. The prosecutrix stated that she knew the appellant. After she went over to talk with him, she testified that the appellant forced her to go upstairs with him. Once inside his apartment, she stated that the appellant took her to the back bedroom and pulled down her pants and underpants, tore her shirt, and put his penis in her vagina. The prosecutrix stated that the rape occurred between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. During her testimony, she identified pictures of the appellant\u2019s apartment as being the place where she was raped.\nWhile the rape victim\u2019s testimony alone meets the requirement of substantial evidence, the state also provided evidence to corroborate the victim\u2019s account. A forensic serologist testified that semen was found on the prosecutrix\u2019s vaginal swabs and smear slide, underpants, and jeans. The investigating officers testified that when the appellant was arrested in his apartment on the same day that the rape occurred, he was wearing clothes that fit the description the prosecutrix had given. In addition, during the search of the apartment, one of the officers found a baseball cap, bearing the name Ricky, on the top bunk in the back bedroom, where the prosecutrix had told the police the appellant put it before he raped her.\nAppellant offered alibi testimony and other evidence in an attempt to discredit the evidence presented by the state. We point out, however, that it is the jury\u2019s job to judge the credibility of the witnesses, and apparently the jury chose to believe the state\u2019s case. See Lewis, 295 Ark. 499, 749 S.W.2d 672.\nFor the reasons stated above, we affirm.", "type": "majority", "author": "Tom Glaze, Justice." } ], "attorneys": [ "Greene Law Offices, by: Robert E. Adcock, for appellant.", "Steve Clark, Att\u2019y Gen., by: O\u00edan W. Reeves, Asst. Att\u2019y Gen., for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Major Allen JONES v. STATE of Arkansas\nCR 88-153\n763 S.W.2d 655\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered January 23, 1989\nGreene Law Offices, by: Robert E. Adcock, for appellant.\nSteve Clark, Att\u2019y Gen., by: O\u00edan W. Reeves, Asst. Att\u2019y Gen., for appellee." }, "file_name": "0499-01", "first_page_order": 535, "last_page_order": 537 }