State v. . Freeman

The prisoner -is charged with having committed a rape upon the body of one Addie Sellers, and upon his trial in the Criminal Court of New Hanover County at November Term, .188.7, was found guilty by the jury, and from the judgment rendered upon the verdict, appealed to ■this Court. The prosecutrix, a married woman, of the age of twenty-three years, and residing alone with a young child dn the city of Wilmington, her husband being at work in ■■.Georgia, testified as follows:

In the afternoon of the day preceding the night on which the. outrage was perpetrated, while the witness was in…