Monroe v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction in District Court of Knox County of rape; punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

Prosecutrix swore to an act of intercourse with appellant at his place of business on March 9th. She was not quite fifteen years of age at the time. She said a Mrs. Burroughs was present, and that at first she did not agree to have intercourse with appellant, and when he would turn the lights off in the building she would turn them on. The act occurred after 12 o’clock at night. The Burroughs woman corroborated prosecutrix. Elliott, a night watchman, said that his attention…