Williams v. State

The plaintiff' in error in this cause was indicted in the month of March, A. D. 1883, in the county of Orange, for the crime of rape. He plead not guilty, was tried in July of the same year, and was, by the verdict of the jury, found guilty. Counsel for defendant moved for a new trial, upon certain grounds set out in the motion. The motion was denied by the court, and the counsel duly excepted to the judgment of the court. The defendant was thereupon sentenced to death, and brings his writ of error.

From the evidence brought up in the bill of exceptions, it appears that a married woman was…