Alexander v. State

In Alexander v. State, 520 So. 2d 127, 128 (Miss. 1988), the defendant entered the victim's hospital room and attempted to rape her. He fled only after she was able to summon help by pressing the nurse's buzzer and speaking the word "help." Id. The defendant argued that he had voluntarily fled the room and thus had abandoned his attempt to rape the victim. Id. at 130. The supreme court found that, the victim's testimony shows that the appellant ceased his actions only after the victim managed to press the buzzer alerting the nurse. . . . This Court stresses the fact that the evidence supports the conclusion that appellant's failure to rape the victim was due to her resistance and ability to sound the alarm, rather to any abandonment on appellant's part. Id.