Mack v. State

— At the fall term, 1906, of the circuit court in and for Duval county the plaintiff in error, a negro, hereinafter called the defendant, was indicted for the crime of rape, his victim being a white girl. In March, 1907, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to die, and comes here for review of such judgment by writ of error returnable to the present term. The only error assigned or presented here is that the court below erred in denying the defendant’s motion for new trial m'ade upon the grounds that the verdict was not. supported by the evidence, that the evidence was not sufficient to…