Medley v. State

A jury found the plaintiff in error, hereafter called defendant, guilty of rape. He was 17 years old at the time of the alleged offense; the prosecutrix was then 18 years old and without mental or physical disability. Defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled and the trial court sentenced him to a term of four years in the penitentiary, from which he prosecuted error to this court.

The defendant’s assignments of error will be taken up in the order in which they are presented.

The defendant contends that the evidence as to resistance by the prosecutrix and corroboration thereof was not…