State v. Johnson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant, William Johnson, a rural school teacher, was convicted of statutory rape upon the person of one of his pupils, Anna May McClellan, a thirteen-year-old girl.

During the winter of 1923-1924 defendant was the teacher in a rural-school district not far from Girard. The prosecuting witness and her sister Gladys, who was two years older than Anna May, attended that school. On one occasion during the noon intermission and while all the pupils were outside at play except these two sisters, defendant picked up the prosecuting witness…