McGEHEE, C.J.
The appellant, A.C. Lewis, a Negro, was indicted, tried, and convicted under Section 2358, Code of 1942, for forcibly ravishing a Negro girl, Ish Mae Loftin, over the age of twelve years, against her will, and he was sentenced to death by electrocution.
The defense interposed was that the act complained of was by mutual consent, and that shortly prior to the date of the alleged crime the defendant and the prosecutrix had engaged in acts of unchastity...
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