Johnston v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, death.

The mother of the injured girl testified that on March 7, 1964, the day after her eighth birthday, her daughter dressed and left the house at S :20 p. m. to go for a walk in the neighborhood with instructions not to go farther than Second Avenue, that at S :55 p. m. her daughter came running home screaming and crying and said “Oh Mother, this man took me out away out into the country and laid his body up close to my little body”, and “it hurt so bad, mother”. She immediately called the police and a physician, and the girl…