Cox v. State

COLEMAN, Justice.

The defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of rape and sentencing him to imprisonment for life.

The evidence for the state tends to show that, around ten o’clock at night on July 5th, prosecutrix went alone to a restaurant about four or five blocks from where she lived. At the restaurant, she was joined by a man named Harris. They remained thirty or thirty-five minutes, had something to eat and a beer, then left together. Harris ordered four beers “to go.” They rode off in Harris’ car to a spot near Spaulding Mines and parked. The hour was about eleven p. m. Harris…