Curran v. State

Southerland, C. J.:

In February, 1948, the appellants, Curran, Maguire and Jones, were convicted of the crime of rape. A brief summary of the State’s evidence at the trial is as follows:. [1] At some time after midnight on October 30, 1947 Jean, Igle, 23 years old, unmarried, was waiting for a bus near the comer of Fourth and Union Streets in the City of Wilmington. An automobile passed and stopped. The three men were in it. Curran got out, approached the girl, and asked her for a match. She had none, and he offered to escort her home. She went with him. They walked west on Fourth Street,…