Mincy v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of rape and sentenced to electrocution; a motion for a new trial was overruled and this appeal comes here under the Automatic Appeal Statute. — Code of 1940, Title 15, §§ 382 (1) — 382(13).

The defendant committed the rape about three o’clock in the afternoon of May 19, 1954, and left the home of the prosecutrix about 3.T5. He was apprehended between four and five o’clock and was identified by the prosecutrix, verbally admitted the crime in the presence of several officers while at the home of the prosecutrix after her identification of him, confessed…