State v. Hines

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of rape committed upon a female under the age of eighteen years. Appellant assigns three errors: (1) The giving of an erroneous instruction, No. 9; (2) the giving of two instructions upon the question of the necessity of corroboration, “because they are contradictory and confusing, cannot be reconciled and do not correctly state the law”; (3) that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict or support the judgment.

Instruction No. 9 complained of is as follows:

“You are instructed, gentlemen, that certain evidence has been introduced in…