Camper v. State

The plaintiff in error, defendant in the lower court, has appealed from a conviction of rape, his punishment being fixed at ten years in the State Penitentiary. Numerous errors have been assigned by counsel to the action of the trial court in denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial. In our view of the case it is not necessary that we discuss the issue as to whether or not the evidence preponderates against the verdict. The evidence is in sharp conflict, the State contending that the act of intercourse was accomplished with force and violence while the defendant testified throughout…