Taylor

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the defendant upon the charge of rape. The sole point urged by the appellant is that there was no sufficient evidence to justify the verdict against him or the judgment rendered thereon. In support of this contention the appellant quotes largely from the evidence in the case, which he insists sustains his claim that he was convicted upon the unsupported testimony of the complaining witness, who not only related an improbable story, and one which was unsupported by the facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged rape, but was contradicted by strong and clear testimony in favor of the defense.

We do not deem it necessary or profitable to relate in detail the sordid story which the complaining witness, a colored girl of the age of thirteen years, has told with respect lo her ravishment by the defendant, who is also of colored extraction and of the age of fifty-four years at the time of the trial. The story which the complaining witness related upon said trial, it must be conceded, appears to be quite improbable upon the face of the record presented to us; but the jury in the case saw both the accused and the complaining witness,…