State v. . Brooks

The defendant, a young Negro fourteen or fifteen years of age, was convicted under a bill of indictment charging him, in two counts, of rape upon the person of Mrs. G. V. Parker and of burglary in breaking and entering the dwelling house then occupied by her, in the nighttime, with the intent to commit this felony.

Many of the details are unprintable, but the evidence necessary to an understanding of the decision upon the appeal may be summarized as follows:

The Parkers, husband and wife, and a daughter seven years old, lived as the sole occupants of a five room house in Wilmington. The house…