Bonner v. State

Hawkins, Justice.

1 “It is a well-established rule in this State that it is not essential to a conviction of rape that the evidence show that the vagina was entered or that the hymen was ruptured, but that this element of the offense is sufficiently established if the proof show only a slight penetration of the anterior of the female sexual organ, known as the vulva or labia, by the sexual organ of the male. Lee v. State, 197 Ga. 123 (28 S. E. 2d, 465); Addison v. State, 198 Ga. 249 (31 S. E. 2d, 393).” Dean v. State, 204 Ga. 759 (51 S. E. 2d, 840). Nor is it essential that the penetration of…