Orr v. State

The appellant, John Orr, Jr., was indicted at the July term, 1929, of the circuit court of Jefferson county for the offense of rape. 1-Ie was duly arraigned upon said indictment on the 11th day of October, 1930, and on the 23d day of the same month he was convicted by the jury of rape, as charged in the indictment, and his punishment fixed at death. Thereafter nothing appears to have been done in the case until January 16, 1932, when, on said day, the court sentenced the defendant to death. , However, on the 9th day of January, 1932, defendant filed in the court a motion for a new trial. This…