State v. Flintroy

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

W. L. Flintroy was charged with the offense of rape by an indictment presented and found against him May 6, 1935. The same day he was arraigned on that indictment; he entered a plea of not guilty. On that day Mary Beard Ezekiel was arrested and charged with aiding Flintroy to escape arrest and punishment. The next day, May 7, another indictment was presented to the grand jury charging Flintroy with the crime of rape, with assault with intent to ravish and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Mary Beard Ezekiel…