State v. . Hairston

Criminal prosecution tried upon an indictment charging the defendant with rape.

The prosecutrix, a woman 52 years of age and a partial invalid, resided in Salem Chapel Township, in Forsyth County, with her father, who is 82 years of age and partially deaf. On Sunday night, 30 November, 1941, the prosecutrix retired between 10:30 and 11:00 o'clock. She slept upstairs and her father slept downstairs. On this night she and her father were alone in the house. About 1:30 in the morning the prosecutrix was awakened, the bed quilts were over her head and someone was lying on her and she was being…