The People v. Richie

Murrell Richie and Emmett Courtway were jointly indicted at the May, 1924, term of the circuit court of Madison county for the rape of Elsie Tucker. By the jury’s verdict they were found guilty and the punishment of each was fixed at fifteen years in the penitentiary. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were made and overruled and they were sentenced to the penitentiary. They prosecute this writ of error to review the judgment.

At the time of the trial Elsie Tucker, the prosecutrix, was twenty and both plaintiffs in error were twenty-one years of age, and all were unmarried and…