Clayton v. State

Appellants, Clayton and Carutliers, negro men, aged 21 and 19 years, respectively,- were convicted of the crime of rape, committed on the person of Vergie Terry, a white woman aged 19, on the- night of December 21, 1934, near a cemetery in the suburbs of the city of Blytheville, Arkansas. They were sentenced to death in the electric chair. They were separately indicted, but tried jointly.

For a reversal of the judgment of conviction and sentence, a number of errors are assigned and argued, among which are the following :■

1. That the court erred in refusing to quash thé indictments against them…