Rankin v. State

BRADY, Justice:

The appellant, a fourteen year old Negro boy, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Scott County, Mississippi, of the crime of burglary with intent to rape and was sentenced to the Mississippi State Penitentiary for a term of seven years, the minimum penalty for breaking and entering with felonious intent an occupied dwelling house. From this conviction and sentence this appeal is taken.

The controlling facts on which the indictment was based are as follows: On August 3, 1967, around eight P.M., Mrs. Ruby Burkes returned to her home on Hill Street in Forest,…