Smith v. State

In this ease the defendant in the court below was convicted of rape and was recommended to the mercy of the court. The bill of exceptions presented some of the most unreasonable stories we have ever been called upon to consider.

The record shows that the woman alleged to have been assaulted has sworn to three different stories about the matter. That she first swore before a Grand Jury investigating the ease that the defendant never touched her at all. Before another Grand Jury she testified apparently very much as she did upon the trial except that before the Grand Jury she testified that…