STEVENS v. STATE

No. 4973.

332 S.W.2d 482 (1960)

Benny STEVENS, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied March 21, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. C. Hervey, Truman, for appellant.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., Ben J. Harrison, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


McFADDIN, Justice.

Appellant was tried and convicted of the rape (§ 41-3401, Ark.Stats.) of his eleven-year-old granddaughter, and sentenced to life imprisonment (§ 41-3403, Ark.Stats.). His motion for new trial contains seven assignments.

I. Sufficiency Of The Evidence. This embraces assignments 1 to 5 in the motion for new trial. The testimony is revolting. Appellant, aged 67, lived in Chicago; but on two occasions he visited in the home...

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