Powell v. State

Ozie Powell, William Roberson, Andy Wright, Olen Montgomery, and Eugene Williams were jointly indicted, along with three others, by a grand jury of Jackson county, charging them, and each of them, with the offense of rape. The victim of their alleged offense was Victoria Price, a yoxxng white woman who lived at or near the city, of Huntsville, in this state, and who, at the time of the commission of the alleged offense, was riding upon a freight train between Stevenson and Paint Bock, in Jackson county.

The trial of the appellants was had in the ’circuit court of Jackson county, on April 8,…