State v. Brady

Woods, Judge:

Andrew Brady was convicted by a jury in the circuit court of Hardy county of rape. Judgment of death was pronounced upon him by the court, and from that judgment he prosecutes a writ of error.

The evidence of the state shows that the defendant went to the home of Seymour Huffman, about a mile above the town of Petersburg, a little before 11 o ’clock, on Sunday morning, August 15, 1926, asked for a cup of water of the seventeen year old white girl (the prosecutrix here), who was living in said home as a domestic, and further asked if Mr. Huffman wanted to hire a man to work for…