Melton v. State

HOLT, Associate Justice:

Tom Melton, 30, was convicted of ravishing and carnally knowing, forcefully and against her will, a girl aged 16, and was sentenced to death in the electric chair.

On the night of June 27, 1946, the victim was seated in a car, about 10:30, in an isolated section of the City of Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, with her companion. The couple had attended a motion picture show, after which they partook of a soft drink at a drive-in barbecue stand and thereafter parked at the place mentioned prior to returning home. This was their third date since her friend had been…