Lankford v. State

The appellant was convicted on a charge of rape, alleged, in the affidavit and information on which he was prosecuted, to have been committed on one Dora Little, who was alleged to be a female child under the age of fourteen years.

The court, at the proper time, sustained a demurrer to appellant’s plea in abatement and overruled his motion for a new trial and his motion in arrest of judgment.

Error is assigned on these rulings. The last one of the alleged errors is waived by appellant in failing to refer to it in his brief.

The substance of the plea in abatement is that, on the 25th day of…