Yarbrough v. State

The jury convicted Yarbrough of the rape of Billie Wee Ponder, a Negro girl, five years and two months old, and sentenced him to the state penitentiary for life. He appeals.

•He first conténds that the evidence of his guilt is not sufficient to'support the verdict of the jury. This necessitates a review of the evidence'.

The father of the child is a minister, has a wife and eight children and lives in the southern part of Laurel, Mississippi, in a section known as Queenstown, largely inhabited by members of the Negro race. On the evening of December 6, 1946, about sundown or a little later, the…