Corn v. State

Cox, J.—

The appellant was indicted for the crime of rape, alleged to have been committed upon the person of a girl thirteen years of age, was tried by a jury and found guilty. Being forty years of age, he was given an indeterminate sentence of from two to twenty-one years in the State Prison. From that sentence he appeals, and assigns for error the action of the trial court in overruling his motion for a new trial.

The only proposition or point stated in appellant’s brief relates to instruction four, given by the court, which involves a definition of reasonable doubt, and which was merely…