Bailey v. State

The Plaintiff in Error was convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. He contends that the evidence does not support the verdict, and that there was error in admitting in evidence the praecipe for witnesses and the insolvency affidavit filed by the defendant.

The prosecutrix, a twenty-year-old married negro wench, says the defendant came to the camp where she was alone, and asked her to go into the tent, and she refused, and he grabbed her by the arm and pulled her in, and threw her on the bed, and choked her with his left hand and put his privates in her with his other hand, and…