State v. Hull

English, Judge :

On the 13th day of September, 1898, Grant Hull was indicted in the circuit court of Berkeley County, for the crime of rape, charged to have been committed upon one Ella May Glessner.’ The plea of not guilty was interposed, and on the ,16th day of September, 1898, a jury was sworn in the cause. On the 17th of the same month they found the prisoner guilty as charged in the indictment, but recommended that he be punished by confinement in the penitentiary, and, thereupon, the prisoner moved the court to set aside the verdict and grant him a new trial, which motion, after…