State v. Symens

í rape-p?OTreutrix-f evidence. The prosecutrix was barely over the age of consent, and defendant is her brother-in-law. The offense is said to have been committed on an island in the Mississippi river, to which point the defendant took the girl in a rowboat. There can be no question that the verdict has sufficient support in the evidence, and, if there be a reversal, it must follow from some error committed by the trial court. Many of these are assigned, and to such as seem to merit attention we shall now refer. We- extract the following from the abstract showing the record with reference to…