Stone v. State

BOULDIN, Justice.

Appellants were separately indicted for rape. The crimes having been committed, if at all, on the same occasion upon the same victim, the cases were tried together. A verdict of guilty was returned against each of them. Separate records are filed on appeal, each identical with the other, save that a separate indictment, verdict, judgment and sentence appears in each case. The questions raised on appeal being common to all, they are treated together.

Three young men, twenty-six to twenty-eight years of age, shown by unchallenged evidence to have theretofore sustained good…