Rhoades v. State

Defendant, convicted of statutory rape upon a child under the age of 18 years, brings error to this court.

The defendant did not testify. The trial court, over his objection, permitted the mother of the complaining witness in her direct examination to give, in full, detailed statements of the complaining witness going to show sexual relations between her and the defendant, and also. statements touching their general relations, not sexual. This was error, and, under the circumstances of this case, where, as shown by the record, evidence of the corpus delicti was slight was prejudicial to the…