State v. . Litteral

Criminal prosecution under bill of indictment which charges the capital felony of rape.

The evidence for the State tends to establish the following facts:

Prosecutrix lives at Pleasant Hill, a settlement on the Traphill road about four miles from the center of Elkin. On the evening of 23 August 1946 she and two girl friends, accompanied by three boys, went to a watermelon feast in or near Elkin, arriving about 7:00 p.m. They returned to the cab station Elkin, bus stop, too late to "catch" a bus. They then went to a movie. They returned to the bus stop and the three girls boarded a bus about…