Ryall v. State

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, Frank L. Ryall, was convicted on two indictments each charging acts of gross indecency and lewdness, and was sentenced to serve 11 months and twenty-nine days on the county road in Knox County and to pay a fine of $100.00, and on the second count was sentenced to serve a period of three months on the county road and fined $500.00.

Briefly, the facts are that the prosecutrix Mrs. Marie Stephens, with her three children, ages 9, 7 and 5, went from their home located at 314 East Magnolia Street, Knoxville, Tennessee, on July 10,1956, to a branch of the…