Dickey v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Fkom the circuit court of, first district, Coahoma county. HoN. Samuel 0. Cooe, Judge. Hammond .Dickey, the appellant, a white man, was indicted, tried, and convicted of rape upon Catherine Fortson, a negro girl, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The offense was committed and indictment found in Quitman county, but the venue was changed, on defendant’s application, and the trial had in Coahoma county, first district.
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Fkom the circuit court of, first district, Coahoma county. HoN. Samuel 0. Cooe, Judge. Hammond .Dickey, the appellant, a white man, was indicted, tried, and convicted of rape upon Catherine Fortson, a negro girl, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The offense was committed and indictment found in Quitman county, but the venue was changed, on defendant’s application, and the trial had in Coahoma county, first district. From the conviction and sentence defendant appealed to^ the supreme court. On the trial, the prosecutrix, Catherine Fortson, testified that she lived near the…
1Opinion of the Court
Oox, <T.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant, a white man, was convicted of rape. The victim was a little negro girl. According to her father’s testimony, she was ten .years and about nine months old when the offense was committed; but, from certain circumstances testified to in the case, she may have been as much as twelve or thirteen. Every element of the crime is established fully — indeed, is confessed — except the want of consent of the prosecutrix. Upon this issue the only direct evidence is the testimony of the prose-cutrix and the accused.
It is insisted that the case should…
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