Palmer v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Wilson county for the crime of rape, committed upon the person of Mrs. Sophronia J. Yates, and was sentenced to be hanged. He thereupon appealed to this court and assigned errors. We have fully considered the evidence, and all of the errors assigned, in a memorandum opinion filed with record, and we do not deem it necessary, in the present opinion, to refer more particularly to the facts, and to certain of the errors assigned, than in the manner just mentioned; In this opinion, prepared for publication, we shall advert…