Rice v. State

Liddon’, J. :

The plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of rape upon one Helen Smith, his step-daughter. At the trial the defendant’s counsel propounded the following question in cross-examination of the prosecutrix, to-wit: ‘‘Did you ever have intercourse with this, defendant or any other man previous to last Monday morning?” The time inquired about was that at which the offense was committed, as shown by her examination in chief. The ruling of the court sustaining an objection to this question is assigned as error. The assignment is not well taken. The avowed object of the question…