Climer v. State

Wyatt, Justice.

There is no merit in the general grounds of the motion for new trial. The testimony of the victim, which established that the accused had carnal knowledge of her, forcibly and against her will, was amply corroborated by other evidence. A girl companion testified that the accused overcame the victim while she was struggling at a parked automobile and carried her into a pine thicket, where the witness heard the victim screaming, and where the victim remained for about thirty minutes; that the victim was crying when she returned! to the car and on the way back to her home. There…