State v. White

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused was indicted for the crime of aggravated rape. The jury returned a verdict of “guilty without capital punishment”. A motion for a new trial was filed on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the law and evidence and it was overruled. The defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. He appealed and relies upon nine bills of exception for the annulment of the verdict and the sentence.

Bill of exception No. 1 was reserved to the trial judge’s ruling in refusing to instruct the jury to disregard all of that part of the district…