Richardson v. State

GRAVES, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment assessed is death.

Our final disposition of this case precludes the necessity of setting out the full facts herein. Suffice it to say, however, that this is a case of a Negro man forcibly entering the home of a 15-year-old white girl, carrying' her away therefrom for some distance and desecrating her body over her active resistance.

There are five bills of exception in the record, all relating to the argument of the district attorney before the jury.

Bill of Exception No. 1 sets out the following argument:

“Gentlemen, we have tried the…