Cox v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Charged with rape, the appellant was convicted of assault with intent to rape and sentenced to imprisonment for twsnty-one years. His contentions for reversal relate only to the admissibility of á tape-recorded confession made shortly after he was taken into custody.

We need state only such facts as are pertinent to the appeal. On the afternoon of May 9,1965, the prosecutrix, a nineteen-year-old girl, took her father’s car to a. service station in Paragould to have the brakes checked. Cox, the accused, aged twenty, was working at the station. He got into the car with…