Ball v. People

A criminal information was filed in the district court charging plaintiff in error, defendant below, with statutory rape of an unmarried female person under the age of eighteen years and not the wife of said defendant. The case was tried to a jury which returned a verdict finding said defendant guilty as charged in the information. Motion for new trial was overruled, whereupon the court sentenced defendant to the penitentiary for a term of “not less than three (3) years and not more than six (6) years.” Defendant seeks reversal of the judgment.

No good purpose would be served by a lengthy…