Jones v. State

Appellant was tried by a jury, convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced for life under the first count of an indictment which first charged that he purposely and with premeditated malice killed Edith Idelle Barton and then described in detail how the offense was committed. After reciting the chain of events leading up to his ravishing the deceased, Edith Idelle-Barton, the indictment concludes as follows:. . that by reason of said ravishing and carnal knowledge, as aforesaid, the said child, Edith Idelle Barton, was then arid there in great distress of mind and body and…