White v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of the offense of “forcibly ravishing Elizabeth Liger,” a white woman, and was sentenced to suffer death by electrocution.

The appellant is of the negro race and the evidence offered by the State goes to show that said Elizabeth Liger is a paralytic, twenty years of age, with the mental development of a child from eight to twelve years, and obsessed with a mania to have her fortune told. That appellant, a day or so before the commission of the alleged offense, came to Troy, procured a room at the home of Mary .Etta Gray, also of negro race, fitted the…