State v. Haynes

The defendant was convicted of statutory rape in that, as stated in the indictment, he did then and there unlawfully and feloniously carnally know and have illicit sexual intercourse with a named girl, she then and there being a female child under the age of sixteen years, the said Elroy Haynes then and there being a man over the age of sixteen years. Dissatisfied with the result of the trial, he has appealed.

There are forty-eight assignments of error drawn from a plethoric record, replete with objections of counsel and petty arguments. It is unnecessary to examine more than a few of these…