Adams v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The appellant was convicted for the offense of rape and sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment. He appeals, asserting that the State should not have been allowed to bolster the testimony of the prosecutrix, and that the trial judge erred in not granting a mistrial or allowing appellant to make a bill of exception when appellant’s trial counsel alleged that two jury members had seen appellant in handcuffs being transported to the courtroom.

The prosecutrix, seventeen years old at the trial and fifteen at the time of the rape, testified she was pulled into a car…