CATES, Judge.
Murphy was convicted of rape and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years.
He makes but a single claim of error, that is, the refusal of the trial judge to permit the defense, on cross examining the prosecutrix, to show that she wrote a number of letters to another man. On the State's objecting, defense counsel wished to question her as to the letters on the theory that "she is accusing this man here [Murphy] to cover up acts of intimacy with...
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