State v. Digman

Kenna, Judge:

This writ of error was granted to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Harrison County declining a writ to the judgment of the Criminal Court of that county, sentencing the defendant, Claude Digman, to the state penitentiary for a term of twenty years. Sentence was imposed on the twenty-fourth day of December, 1938, and followed a verdict of guilty based upon an indictment for rape, with a recommendation for mercy returned on the twenty-ninth day of November. The prosecuting witness was a young woman to whom the defendant had been married October 12, 1937. According to the State’s…