Tines v. State

William Tines, plaintiff in error, or hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of the rape of Bertha Riggs and was sentenced to death by electrocution. He has appealed and assigned several errors of law.

The first error assigned is that the alleged confession was improperly admitted into evidence because (a) defendant was not speedily arraigned and the confession was obtained prior thereto, and (b) the corpus delicti was not proved prior to the introduction of the confession.

The material facts are as follows: Mrs. Riggs, a widow since her husband’s death 16 years ago, supported…