Pearson v. State

The appellant, Archie Lee Pearson, was found guilty of rape by a jury in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, and was sentenced to be hanged. He has appealed to this court for a reversal on the basis of six exceptions taken at the trial. Two of these, the first and fourth, were “abandoned,” counsel for defendant stated, and reliance placed upon the remaining four. Of these, the third exception, relating to the location of a telephone bell in the home of a witness, Mary Offutt, is so clearly irrelevant and free from reversible error that the trial court’s ruling on that point is affirmed…