Boyd v. State

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Rankin County, on a charge of rape, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, from which sentence this appeal has been taken.

The alleged victim, a twelve-year-old girl, whose father was a neighbor of appellant’s, went to the home of the latter for the purpose of taking a turtle to appellant’s wife. The girl testified that she entered appellant’s house, and asked for his wife; she was told that she was not at home, having gone to Jackson that morning; but appellant told her to lay the turtle on the…