State v. O'Meara

ciency of evidence. — I. The defendant, Ray O’Meara, is accused in the indictment of having- committed the crime of rape on Elsie Hargens, November 4, 1917. He was then 17 years of age, as was prosecutrix. The accused contends there was not sufficient evidence to carry the issues as gUiit to the jury. It appears that prosecutrix went to the home of Ida Knudsen, who was about a year younger, at about 7:30 o ’clock P. M., and remained there until about 15 minutes before 9, when they went to the post office in Ida Grove, and obtained the Chicago and Sioux City newspapers, read them a while, and,…