Hemphill v. State

This negro was convicted and given the death penalty for rape on a woman whose age is shown by the testimony to be fifty-six years.

After giving an account of her trip leaving her residence in search of a horse that she wanted, supposed to be somewhere around the neighborhood or close by, prosecutrix says she met a negro, and told about his movements; that he passed her a time or two. We quote her testimony in this connection from the record: "I went up there to the west fence and I looked around and then I started back and was picking flowers and looking at the flowers, and all of a sudden…