Locke v. State
Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals
501 S.W.2d 826 (1973)
Relevant factsFree
Harold Locke (defendant) broke into a neighbor's apartment at knifepoint and forced her to submit to multiple acts of oral sex, and was convicted under Tennessee's sodomy statute and sentenced to five to seven years; he appealed, arguing that oral sex performed on a female fell outside the statute's traditional scope, which historically required anal penetration.
IssueFree
Whether, in Tennessee, the state's common law sodomy statute applies to all unnatural carnal copulations, including an oral sexual act performed on a female.