Brown v. State

An information was filed against defendant, containing three counts. The first charged that he feloniously did carry off, decoy, entice away, secrete, and imprison one Jean Jenkins for the purpose of compelling the said Jean Jenkins forcibly and against her will to have and submit to sexual intercourse with him. On this count alone he was convicted and now seeks to reverse the judgment.

It is first assigned that the court erred in allowing the state to make proof of defendant’s flight when the flight had been fully admitted in the record. We have repeatedly held that it is entirely competent…