Taylor v. State

GOODWYN, Justice.

Samuel Taylor, alias “Iron Man”, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death by electrocution. His appeal is here pursuant to the statute providing for automatic appeals in death cases. Act No. 249, appvd. June 24, 1943, Gen.Acts 1943, p. 217, Code 1940, Tit. 15, § 382(1) et seq., Pocket Part.

The evidence tended to show the following: At a little past midnight on Saturday morning the prosecuting witness and her date drove out to a secluded spot off the Tarrant-Huffman Highway, in Jefferson County, and parked. It was a bright moonlight night. While the couple sat in the…