Killingsworth v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of the crime of rape in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi. From a sentence of fifty years in the penitentiary, Killingsworth appeals.

The state's case against Killingsworth was based on the uncorroborated testimony of the thirty-year-old prosecutrix. We would point out at the outset that her account of the incident is somewhat suspect and extremely weak.

Appellant and the prosecutrix became acquainted through the prosecutrix's next-door neighbor. According to the prosecutrix, their acquaintance had been casual until…