Latimer v. State

Bell, Justice.

The defendant, a man twenty-two years of age, was convicted of the offense of rape upon a nine-year girl. He was recommended to the mercy of the court, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

The court refused to permit the defendant’s attorney to ask the girl, on cross-examination, whether on a previous occasion she had tried to get another man, or boy, named, “to have such relationship with her.” The disallowance of the question is assigned as error in the first special ground of the motion for new trial. The…