Strickland v. State

ROBERTSON, Justice:

The appellant, Kenneth Ray Strickland, a white male adult, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County, of raping a 20-year old white woman. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

The' appellant has assigned 9 errors which he contends were committed by the trial court. Most of these are in areas where the trial court has wide latitude and discretion.

Points I and VIII concern the order of proof. The appellant contends that by allowing the State to put the prosecutrix on the…