McNeal v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction in district court of Jefferson County for rape; punishment fixed at death.

Appellant was convicted of statutory rape, 'the injured female being a girl about eleven years of age. According to the State’s case she was playing with two little boys and the three were invited by appellant to go riding with him in an automobile. The party went into the suburbs and the boys were given money and told to go to a drug store. The girl testifies that appellant then drove her out to a vacant lot, it being in the night time, and that he there had intercourse with her upon the…