BONNER v. STATE

16778.

206 Ga. 19 (1949)

55 S.E.2d 587

BONNER v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 10, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. O. Cooper Jr., for plaintiff in error.

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Charles H. Garrett, Solicitor-General, W. M. West, and J. R. Parham, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


HAWKINS, Justice.

1. "It is a well-established rule in this State that it is not essential to a conviction of rape that the evidence show that the vagina was entered or that the hymen was ruptured, but that this element of the offense is sufficiently established if the proof show only a slight penetration of the anterior of the female sexual organ, known as the vulva or labia, by the sexual organ of the male. Lee v. State, 197 Ga. 123 (28 S.E.2d 465...

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