Buchanan v. State

On April 4, 1954, the appellant Robert Buchanan entered the bedroom of Mrs. Mary E. Hiatt between 2:00 and 3:00 o’clock A.M., and according to the charge contained in the indictment in this case “did then and there wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously, and forceably rape, ravish, and carnally know Mrs. Mary E. Hiatt, a female person”.

There is no conflict in the oral testimony at the trial as to the commission of the crime or as to the identity of the person who committed the same. Mrs. Hiatt, who was about thirty years of age and the mother of three children, had come to “the city of Jackson in…