Powell v. State

Appellant was convicted under Code 1930, Section 1122, for rape committed upon a young girl fifteen years of age. The direct evidence of the prosecutrix was sufficient to make a case for the jury. It was moreover corroborated in several particulars by her mother as to the condition of her clothing and by her physician as to the condition of her person. The testimony for the appellant, except for his denial of the assault itself, was not inconsistent with that for the state, and in many respects, confirms that of the prosecutrix as to their prior meeting and their presence in the automobile in…