Doss v. State

Alonzo Doss was indicted, tried, and convicted for rape, and sentenced to death. The indictment charges the rape to be upon one Bessie Lee Powe, a female child under the age of twelve years.

It appears that in June, 1929, the appellant went to Mobile, Alabama, and took lodgings in the house of a negro woman named Ella Powe, spending a couple of days and nights there, and representing to her that he was the brother of Ella Powe’s brother’s wife, who lived in Laurel; Miss., and when he was about to return-from Mobile he asked Ella Powe to let the girl, Bessie Lee Powe, go with him to visit her…