Steele v. State

The defendants appeal from conviction of rape and punishment fixed at death by electrocution.

This case was before this Court at the September term, 1948, following a conviction for the same offense with the same penalty, and was reversed because of inadmissible evidence introduced in the court below.

At the time of the commission of the offense the defendants were 18 and 19 years of age respectively. They do not seem to have been involved in any criminal proceedings heretofore. The injured female, Mrs. Annie Kennedy, was a woman 58 years of age and a grandmother.

On March 28, 1948, Mrs. Kennedy…