State v. Johnson

From a conviction of rape and sentence thereon, the defendant has appealed. Owing to the very awkward and careless manner in which this record was certified, the Attorney-General was compelled to ask for a rale upon the clerk to send up true copies of the indictment, and entry of arraignment, *198and in this way the consideration of this appeal has been unnecessarily delayed. The failure to correctly transcribe instruments has nothing to excuse it.

The defendant was indicted at the September term, 1895, for unlawfully and feloniously making an assault, and feloniously and carnally knowing one…