Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Columbia Circuit Court. Charles W. Smith, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, Fern Williams, a negro boy eighteen years of age, was indicted for the crime of rape alleged to have been committed upon Julia Lagrone, a negro woman a year or two older than defendant.
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Appeal from Columbia Circuit Court. Charles W. Smith, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, Fern Williams, a negro boy eighteen years of age, was indicted for the crime of rape alleged to have been committed upon Julia Lagrone, a negro woman a year or two older than defendant. She testified on the trial in substance as follows: She was returning from church alone and on foot on a Sunday afternoon when she was overtaken by the defendant, who had attended the same church. After some remarks about the services at church, he made an indecent proposal, which she declined. He thereupon…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) Several objections have been presented to the instructions given by the presiding judge to the jury, but we are of the opinion that they fairly stated the law of the case. Some of the instructions may be slightly defective in form, but we have several times held that a general objection is not sufficient to raise a question of that kind. St. L., I. M. & So. Ry. Co. v. Pritchett, ante, p. 43, 48 S. W. 809; Phœnix Insurance Co. v. Flemming, 65 ib. 54, 44 S. W. 464.
The defendant testified in his own behalf, and afterwards the state introduced several…
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