State v. Young

The defendant was convicted of the crime of rape in the first degree and sentenced to serve six years in the penitentiary. His fourteen specifications of error may be arranged in eight classes; denial by the court of defendant’s motion for a mistrial and continuance at the conclusion of the state’s attorney’s opening statement to the jury; denial of defendant’s demand for a bill of particulars; unduly restricting the cross-examination of the prosecuting witness; permitting the state’s attorney to testify as to an alleged admission made by the defendant; duplicity of the information or…