Sanders v. State

The appellant was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Lafayette county, under section 1358, Code 1906 (section 1147, Hemingway’s 1927 Code), of the rape of Jennie Lee McDowell, and sen tenced to the penitentiary for life. From that judgment, he prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant was a married man about thirty years of age at the time of the alleged crime. The prosecutrix, Jennie Lee McD'owell, a deaf-mute, was twenty-three years of ag’e at the time she claimed to have been raped by the appellant. She and the appellant had been acquainted for some time prior to June, 1925, during…