Moore v. People

This was an indictment against Joseph Moore for the crime of rape, alleged to have been committed on the person of Nellie Shannon, in Madison county, on the 25th day of February, 1893. On a trial before a jury the defendant was found guilty, and his term of imprisonment fixed at six years in the penitentiary. The court overruled a motion for a new trial and rendered judgment on the verdict. Several alleged errors are relied upon to reverse the judgment, but in the view we take of the record it will only be necessary to consider one of them.

It is averred in the indictment that the offense was…