State v. Higgs

On a trial to the jury, the defendant was found guilty of rape. From the judgment rendered on that verdict he has appealed. His assignments of error are numerous hut can he grouped in five categories. He claims error, first, in the court’s refusal to allow questions on the voir dire concerning possible race prejudice on the part of prospective jurors; second, in various rulings on evidence; third, in the denial of his motion for a mistrial; fourth, in the charge; and lastly, in the court’s conduct, which he maintains was so prejudicial to him throughout the whole trial that it constituted a…