Smith v. State

Oseo Cobb, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. On appeal from the conviction, appellant raises two points:(1) Alleged insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict; failure of the court to direct a verdict.(2) Alleged error of trial court in permitting prosecuting attorney to question appellant with reference to a lie detector test.

Point 1—The evidence.

The victim in this crime is a grandmother. She and her four-year-old granddaughter were spending the night of July 24-25, 1965, in her apartment when the attack…