Brooks v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of rape of a female under the age of consent, and his punishment fixed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

It appears from the first bill of exceptions in the record that the prosecution made a statement of its case, as is permitted by our statute, in the opening. No objection seems to have been made to the ex tended character of this statement at the time, although it was strenuously objected to in the presentation of the case in oral argument before this Court. After the said statement was concluded, appellant asked that he…