State v. . Farrell

Criminal prosecution tried upon indictment charging the defendant with rape.

The record discloses that on the morning of 23 March, 1943, the defendant went to the Edgemont School in the city of Durham and falsely represented to the principal that his stepdaughter, a child eight years of age, was needed at home on account of the illness of her mother, when in reality the mother of the child was away at the time. The defendant took his stepdaughter home, made her drink some whiskey, and then ravished her.

The defendant was immediately arrested and placed in jail. The grand jury, then in session,…