McArthur v. State

Citations

• 105 Miss. 398
• 62 So. 417

Syllabus

<p>Rape. Evidence. Sufficiency. Instructions.</p> <p>Under the evidence as shown in the opinion, the court held that defendant was properly convicted of rape and that an instruction asked by the defendant announcing the rule to the effect that, “where the conviction of rape is on the uncorroborated testimony of a female alleged to have been raped, it should always be scrutinized with caution, and where there is much in the facts and circumstances in evidence to discredit her testimony, it is not sufficient to sustain a verdict of guilty,” was under the facts of this ease properly refused.</p>