State v. Collins

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Woodman J. Collins was tried, convicted and sentenced under an indictment charging him with aggravated rape upon one Gladys E. Vatis; and from his conviction and sentence to “serve the death penalty as provided by law,” he has appealed, relying for reversal on a number of errors allegedly committed during the trial to which timely objection was made and bills perfected. 1

According to the record, Mrs. Vatis, a married woman thirty-five years of age, of the Caucasian race, who resided with her husband, a merchant seaman employed on the coastal route, and two teen-age…