Head v. State

Appellant ivas indicted in the circuit court of Pike County for the crime of rape, committed the first day of May, 1926, upon Ruby Sain, a female person of the age of sixteen years. On the 31st day of March, 1927, he was tried under the indictment and convicted of carnal abuse, for which crime he was adjudged to serve a term of four years in the State Penitentiary. He has duly prosecuted an appeal to this court from the judgment of conviction, relying upon four assignments of error for a reversal of the judgment.

The first assignment of error is the refusal of the court to allow Dr. T. P.…