Williams v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Nowata- county on a charge of rape in the first degree, and was sentenced to serve a term of 15 years in the state penitentiary.

This is a second trial; the former having resulted in a mistrial. The record discloses that at the time charged defendant was 23 years of age; Ethel Franklin, the prosecutrix, was 13 years of age at the time. She is a sister of defendant’s wife. Several acts of intercourse are testified to. The act relied upon for a conviction is testified to have occurred on July 27, 1924.…