Polk v. State

In an exceedingly clear and forceful motion for rehearing in which many authorities are reviewed, appellant insists that there is not sufficient corroboration of the prosecutrix as to the fact of the alleged carnal intercourse between them. It seems not to be seriously contested that she is sufficiently corroborated as to the promise of marriage, it appearing in the record that her sister testified to having overheard appellant ask her to marry him and her assent to said proposition; also that her father testified that she was preparing to marry appellant.

We cannot assent to appellant's…