Lang v. State

230 Miss. 147 (1956)

87 So.2d 265

LANG

v.

STATE

No. 40098.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 14, 1956.

Jeff Collins, Luther Austin, Ronald C. Brown, Laurel, for appellant.

J.R. Griffin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

LEE, J.

Theldor Lang, a Negro man, was convicted of the forcible rape of a white woman, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From the judgment entered, he appealed.

Mrs. Edna Earle Dreding, twenty years of age, was living with her year old baby girl in a duplex apartment in the City of Laurel. Her husband was a sailor in the United States Navy,…