Mississippi Supreme Court· 3/15/1922
Joslin v. State
Citations
- 129 Miss. 181
- 91 So. 903
Syllabus
<p>Rape. Oonvietion must he reversed where against the weight of the evidence.</p> <p>A conviction for rape must be reversed where based alone on the testimony of prosecutrix, whose story was contradicted in many respects by her statements made out of court, and where her story was in many respects so improbable and unreasonable, as that the verdict was against the clear weight of the evidence.</p>
Judges: Anderson
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