Territory v. Young

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PERRY, C. J.

The appellant was charged by indictment with having-committed the crime of rape on one Bernice Lum, on •March 12, 1932. After trial before a jury, he was found guilty and was sentenced to a maximum of thirty-five years’ imprisonment at hard labor. The case comes to this court for review by writ of error containing thirty-seven assignments of error.

Assignments numbered 4 and 5 have been expressly abandoned. (See brief, pp. 24, 25.) Assignment number 2 is that the court erred in denying a motion for a new trial “on the ground that said verdict was contrary to…