Ratcliff v. State

Appellant, a negro woman, was indicted, tried and convicted of cohabiting with Elsie Arrington, a white man, who was jointly indicted with appellant. Appellant was granted a severance and separately tried. The indictment was drawn under Section 2000, Mississippi Code of 1942, as amended by Chapter 241, Laws of 1956. The indictment did not charge that appellant and the man with whom she was alleged to have cohabited were persons within the degrees within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void. It charged that appellant and Arrington were of different races, by reason of…