State v. Friddles

1. The principal errors claimed by counsel for defendant are that the evidence on the part of the State is insuf*210ficient to sustain a conviction for the reason that the testimony of the prosecutrix, Rosie Prestwood, a girl of the age of sixteen years, whom the defendant is alleged to have forcibly ravished, was not corroborated, and that she failed to make complaint until about five months afterward; that the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion for a directed verdict of acquittal and in refusing to instruct the jury to find the defendant not guilty as requested by counsel for…