Lang v. State

This Court, on the former appearance of this cause, Lang v. State, 92 So.2d 670, sustained the appellant's petition, under Chapter 250, Laws of 1952, and granted him leave to file in the Circuit Court of Jones County, the trial court, a motion to vacate the judgment whereby he had been sentenced to serve a life term in the State Penitentiary for the crime of rape, subsequently affirmed by this Court, 87 So.2d 265, and to grant him a new trial on account of newly discovered evidence.

The opinion therein detailed the allegations of the petition with respect to the rape on August 5, 1954, of Mrs.…