Carter v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

From a judgment of conviction of the offense of rape, this appeal was taken.

The indictment, proper in form and substance, charged that the defendant, naming him, forcibly ravished Sarah Milton, 'a woman, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.

The defendant was duly and legally arraigned, and interposed his plea of not guilty, in answer to the indictment.

Rape being a capital offense, the lower court made and entered all requisite orders, and as to this no questions were raised below, or presented here.

The jury fixed defendant’s punishment at twenty…