Veasey v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The appellant was tried and convicted of rape in violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1803 (Repl. 1977) and received a thirty-five year sentence. Jurisdiction is in the Supreme Court pursuant to Rule 29 (1) (b). This appeal follows the denial of a motion for a new trial. We affirm the trial court.

The facts relating to the motion for a new trial establish that appellant’s attorney stated by affidavit that two days after the trial he was in the corridor of the courthouse when Virgil Elmore, one of the jurors, approached him and said that the jury had assumed the appellant…