Black v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried in the superior court of Richmond county, upon an indictment charging him with the crime of rape. The jury found him guilty, with a recommendation of mercy, and he was by the trial judge sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three years. He made a motion for a new trial on various grounds, which being overruled, he sued out a bill of exceptions to this court. The offense was alleged to have been committed upon one Lucy Wood. According to her story, she was a country girl, about' eighteen years old, and went to the city of Augusta in…