Larkins v. State

Hawes, Justice.

James Washington Larkins was convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals, enumerating 13 grounds of alleged error.

1. In ground 1 appellant contends that the court erred in allowing a witness for the state to testify after he had remained in the courtroom in violation of the rule of sequestration of witnesses which had been invoked by the defendant. Defendant’s objection to this witness taking the stand at the time he was offered was overruled. Matters such as this are addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and unless an abuse of that…