BLADE v. State

The appellants, Robert Earl Blade, Billy Huggins and O’Neal Luke, were jointly indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, for the crime of rape. The jury found the defendants guilty as charged, but disagreed as to the punishment, whereupon each of the appellants was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. Prom this judgment the appellants appeal.

The prosecutrix was 18 years of age and had been living with her sister in the City of Greenville for about four months. The record reveals that on the afternoon of August…