State v. Watson

HAMITER, Justice.

The defendant, Roosevelt Watson, is appealing from a conviction and a sentence to life imprisonment for the crime of aggravated rape, and he presents for our consideration twelve perfected hills of exceptions, any one of which (if meritorious) would entitle him at the most to a new trial inasmuch as each addresses itself to an issue that arose during the course of the trial.

But the accused failed to move for a new trial in the district court. And when this appeal was taken, as well as when the transcript was lodged here (May 22, 1964), the timely making of such a motion was a…