Ex Parte Pearson

This is an original action instituted by the petitioner, Joe Pearson, Jr., to secure his release from confinement in the State Penitentiary.

It is contended by petitioner that if defendant is guilty of any crime, he is not guilty of rape in the first degree which is the crime for which he was tried and sentenced, and further alleges that the testimony of the prosecutrix was preposterous, unreasonable, and that there was no corroboration of her testimony.

Attached to the petition is an affidavit of Joe Pearson, Jr., pretending to set out the “actual” facts pertaining to the prosecution. In this…