Wright v. State

Partially Dissenting Opinion.

McGehee', J.,

delivered a partially dissenting opinion.

Prom a conviction of the crime of rape and sentence' to suffer the death penalty, the accused, Jesse Oliver Wright, has prosecuted this appeal, assigning as error, among other things, as ground for the reversal of the case, the action of the trial court in admitting in evidence certain confessions made by him under the circumstances hereinafter mentioned.

The prosecutrix, a young white woman, whose husband was in the naval service at the time of the alleged assault, testified that when she left her work as a…