GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice:
W.T. Bailey, an attorney in George County, Mississippi, was appointed by the circuit court of that county to represent two indigents who had been charged in justice of the peace court with the crime of rape which is a capital offense. At the preliminary hearing the prosecuting attorney informed the court that the prosecutrix had admitted that the rape charges were spurious. Thereupon the charges were dismissed and no indictment was returned...
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