Robert Keith Jennings was found guilty by a jury of the offense of rape. He appeals claiming that the trial court erroneously admitted evidence identifying him as the rapist and showing as similar transaction evidence that he committed a prior rape. He also contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction. For the following reasons, we find no error and affirm. 1. The State presented the following evidence in support of the rape charge. The rape victim testified that, after attending a University of Georgia football game in Athens, she and her sister were drinking alcoholic beverages in a local bar and she became intoxicated and disoriented. She went to use the restroom at the bar and the next thing she remembered was realizing that she was in the backseat of a car being driven out of Athens by a man she did not know. She tried to escape from the car, but the doors were locked and she was unable to get out. The man drove her to a trailer, where he took her inside and tried to talk her into voluntary sex. She refused and physically fought back when the man fondled her, but he overpowered her, pulled off her clothes, and forcibly raped her. After the rape, the victim put her clothes on and begged the man to take her back to Athens. He refused and tried to pull off her clothes a second time. The victim resisted this time by pretending she was sick and about to vomit. This tactic worked for a short period when the man let her go to the bathroom where she pretended to vomit. When she came out of the bathroom, the man again tried to pull off her clothes, but the victim fought back and the man eventually gave up, drove the victim back to Athens, and released her several hours after he took her from the bar.
The victim immediately reported the rape to the Athens-Clark County Police Department and was examined at a local hospital. The medical examination showed tears and inflamation in the victim’s vaginal area along with scratching and bruising consistent with a recent sexual assault. The victim gave police a description of the man, including the fact that he wore glasses, generally described the car he was driving, and gave a detailed description of the trailer where she was raped. Based on the description of the rapist, the police devised a lineup of photographs of six men generally matching the description, all wearing glasses, and showed the lineup to the victim a few days after the rape. The victim immediately picked the photograph of Jennings in the lineup as the man who raped her. The victim also testified at trial and identified Jennings in the courtroom as the man who raped her.
