Owens v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The evidence in this case is in direct conflict. The prosecutrix testifies to a statement of facts which, if believed by the jury beyond a reasonable doubt, makes out a clear case as charged in the indictment. Per contra, the testimony of the defendant if believed by the jury, while corroborating in some particulars the testimony of the prosecutrix, denies pointedly that there was ever any act constituting the offense.

The testimony of other witnesses, both for the.State and the defendant, only tended to corroborate the statement of the one or the other. We have examined the…