Starnes v. State

Kroger, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged in an information with the crime of rape and entered a plea of not guilty. After a trial of several days duration the jury returned a verdict of guilty, upon which verdict he was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years. From that verdict and sentence this appeal is prosecuted.

The defendant sets out eight assignments of error and they will be disposed of in the order of their assignment.

The prosecuting witness is a married woman, the mother of two small children. She was 20 years of age…