Bailey v. State

■ Carleton Harris, Chief Justice. This case has been before the courts on numerous occasions, 1 and is now here for the second time on the merits. Appellant ivas convicted of the crime of rape, and sentenced to suffer the punishment of death. Some twenty-five assignments of error are listed in the motion for new trial, though only one of these is argued by appellant in his brief.

Four of these assignments deal with the sufficiency of the evidence. The prosecuting witness, a white woman, 49 years of age at the time of the alleged crime, testified that she retired at her home in Little Rock…