Lee v. State

Richard Lee, plaintiff in error, defendant in the trial court, was charged with rape in the first degree. He was found guilty of assault to rape, with his punishment assessed at 3 years in the penitentiary.

The abused girl was over the age of 18 years. John Eubanks, the other person implicated, was a boy 14 years of age. Defendant Lee was a mature man, large and strong physically. Late in the evening all three of these persons were at a Fourth of July celebration near the town of Canton. Some time after dark the defendant Lee and young Eubanks undertook to convey the girl in a single-seated…