State v. Walker

Stukes, Chief Justice.

Appellant was arrested upon a warrant which charged him with statutory rape. He employed an experienced attorney who represented him at a preliminary hearing before the magistrate. Question arose as to the age of the prosecutrix. The attorney conferred over the telephone with the solicitor, representing the State, and it was agreed between the counsel that the charge would be reduced to bastardy and presented to the grand jury.

Upon subsequent indictment, and after continuances of the case upon the motion from term to term for a year, appellant, represented by another…