Willie James Paul, Otis Hurt, Jr. and Sidney Farley were jointly indicted for the offenses of rape and murder of a 66-year-old female. Paul’s motion for severance was granted, and on trial he was acquitted of the murder charge and convicted of rape. An overall statement of facts is found in
Hurt v. State,
1. Enumeration one complains that the verdict is without evidence to support it, decidedly and strongly against the weight of the evidence, and contrary to law and the principles of justice and equity. This court passes on the sufficiency of the evidence, not its weight, which was considered by the jury.
Ridley v. State,
2. Sexual intercourse with a woman whose will is temporarily lost from intoxication, or unconsciousness arising from use of drugs or other cause, or sleep, is rape.
Gore v. State,
3. Paul charges as the third error that questions to the expert witness asked by the trial court were an expression of opinion by the court and highly prejudicial. We do not agree. None of the questions was prejudicial, and the trial judge stated to the jury immediately thereafter that "I do not express any opinion. . . as to any *107 aspect of this case or as to the guilt or innocence of this defendant. The object of all legal investigations is the discovery of the truth. I have no opinions whatsoever in this case.”
4. Charged as error number four was the admission of evidence reflecting the guilt or innocence of the accused’s co-conspirators. From our review of the record it appears that there was a prima facie showing of a conspiracy between the accused and his co-indictees, and the evidence reflecting on the guilt or innocence of the co-indictees was properly admitted.
McCluskey v. State,
5. There is no merit in Paul’s fifth contention that photographs of the victim should not have been admitted into evidence.
Baker v. State,
6. Urged as error number six was the admission of testimony by Al Banks as to the contents of a conversation he had had with the victim’s granddaughter, objected to as being hearsay. Banks testified that the accused was present at the time of the conversation. Such testimony was not objectionable as being hearsay.
Perkins v. State,
7. The trial judge sustained an objection to the question "When you walked in the house, there and you saw Willie James getting up off Ms. Charlotte with his zipper open and hanging out of it, did you think that there was anything unusual about that?” Here the witness was being asked his mere conclusory opinion as to an issue ultimately for the jury to determine, and it was not error to sustain the objection.
8. The accused asserts as errors eight and nine that his conviction was void because both the grand jury and the traverse jury were drawn from arrays which grossly and unconstitutionally underrepresented women and Negroes.
Counsel for this accused was appointed May 24, 1976; the accused was indicted May 31, and was tried on June 22 and 23. The proper method for objecting to the composition of the grand jury is a challenge to the array before the indictment is returned. Likewise, objection to the traverse jury must be raised by challenge to the array
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at the earliest opportunity the accused has to avail himself of that right. Ordinarily the issue cannot be raised for the first time after the trial, verdict and imposition of sentence, by motion for new trial as the accused here attempts.
Cobb v. State,
9. Paul’s tenth enumeration of alleged error is the trial court’s refusal to order the district attorney to insert his file into the record of this case on appeal. An in camera inspection of the district attorney’s file was made by the trial judge in compliance with Brady v. Maryland,
The evidence supports the verdict.
Judgment affirmed.