State v. Smith

*45The respondents appeal from convictions of the crime of rape and also present exceptions to certain rulings of the presiding Justice.

The Appeals

The State contended that the crime was committed during the evening of February 22, 1942, in the town of Norway in Oxford County. Its testimony in support of the charge came almost wholly from Violet L. Poland, eighteen years old. According to her story she and her friend, Mr. Smith (not the respondent), were at Mac’s Roller Skating Pavilion in Oxford. About nine o’clock in the evening she went across the road to call upon her friend, Ann Mayberry.…