Moore v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

The defendant appeals from a conviction of rape and a sentence of twenty years imprisonment. He assigns as error the various rulings pending trial as well as the overruling of a motion for a new trial.

The first insistence of error is that venue was established by héarsay evidence. The prosecutrix' testified that, after the alleged attack, she and defendant, used a towel (given her by defendant) and that she threw it out of the car before they left the scene for the return trip home.

Several days later, she and Detective Howell found the towel at this place which, according to…