Johnson v. State

QUILLEN, Chancellor:

The appellant, Marion Earl Johnson, was indicted for rape and assault with intent to commit murder. He was found guilty of rape and assault in a jury trial. In this appeal, he challenges the admission into evidence of his confession and the admission into evidence of certain out-of-court statements made by the seventy-five year old victim, Mrs. Florence Glass.

Initially, we turn to the appellant’s claim that the “confession . . . should not have been admitted since the State failed to establish the corpus delicti of the rape by competent, independent evidence.” *

It has long…