Colley v. State

W. F. Colley was indicted for the offense of rape alleged to have been committed upon a female eleven years of age. The jury found him guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, and fixed his punishment at from five to fifteen years in the penitentiary; and he was sentenced accordingly. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

Ground one of the amendment to the motion for new trial complains that the court erred in permitting the jury while trying the case to leave the County of DeKalb where the case was pending, go into an adjoining county, stop at a hotel in the City of…