Bethel and Wallace v. State

Appellants were separately indicted, jointly tried by consent, on a charge of rape committed on the person of Mrs, Pearl Jordan, on Sunday evening, April 1, 1928, were convicted, and sentenced to death by electrocution.

Only two questions are presented for our consideration and determination, as follows:'

1. That the court erred in permitting Dr. McCall to testify for the State, over the objections and exceptions of appellants, that on Monday, the day after the crime is said to have been committed on Sunday night, at the request of the sheriff’s office he made a. physical examination of both…