State v. . Sutton

The defendant was tried upon a bill of indictment charging that he "did unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously ravish and carnally know Mrs. Walter Sansbury, a female, by force and against her will."

The State offered evidence, including the testimony of the prosecuting witness, which tended to show that on 1 August, 1944, the prosecuting witness was waiting to catch a bus at the bus stop in Maffitt Village at about 3:00 o'clock p.m., to come to her work with the Western Union Telegraph Company in Wilmington; that while she was standing at the bus stop the defendant drove up in a Dodge…