Murphy v. State

CATES, Judge.

Murphy was convicted of rape and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years.

He makes but a single claim of error, that is, the refusal of the trial judge to permit the defense, on cross examining the prosecutrix, to show that she wrote a number of letters to another man. On the State’s objecting, defense counsel wished *218to question her as to the letters on the theory that "she is accusing this man here [Murphy] to cover up acts of intimacy with this other man.”

The trial judge sustained the State’s objection, relying on Story v. State, 178 Ala. 98, 59 So. 480, which stands for the…