Hays v. State

Jid Hays prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment against him for the statutory crime of carnal abuse.

The first assignment of error is that the evidence is not legally sufficient to support the verdict.

No useful purpose could be served by setting out the evidence in the record. We deem it sufficient to say that the evidence for the State, if believed by the jury, warranted it in finding that the defendant had sexual intercourse with a girl under the statutory age. Hence this assignment of error is not well taken.

The next assignment of error relates to the argument of the special counsel…