Edwards

The defendant was convicted of the crime of rape committed by reason of having sexual intercourse with a female under the age of sixteen years, she at the time not being his wife. From a judgment pronounced upon the ver.dict, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals.

Numerous errors are assigned as grounds "for reversal, but we are of opinion that the action of the trial court in admitting, over defendant’s objection, evidence of the commission of another rape upon the prosecuting witness by another party on the same day, at a remote place, was erroneous and so prejudicial as to seriously affect defendant’s rights. The record discloses that the defendant and another young man started to drive out into the country and overtook two young girls who were walking along the road; that these girls got into the buggy with the young men, the prosecuting witness sitting on the lap of defendant and the other girl on the lap of his companion; that during the drive out into the country defendant took improper liberties with the prosecuting witness; that after they arrived at a point near what is known as Elk Bayou, defendant’s male companion and the girl who had previously…