State v. Dorton

Lovtns, Judge:

Douglas Dorton, having been convicted of rape with the recommendation for mercy, prosecutes this writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Fayette County, sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years. He and the complaining witness will be hereinafter referred to as “defendant” and “prosecutrix”.

Prosecutrix testified that she first met defendant on a street in the Town of Oak Hill shortly after seven p. m. on November 6,1941, being introduced to him by Mary Campbell, a mutual acquaintance. Defendant admits meeting prosecutrix on the date and at…