State v. Bryant

WESTHUES, C.

[ 584] Appellant Bryant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Atchison County, Missouri, on a charge of statutory rape. His punishment was fixed at eight years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. From the sentence imposed, he appealed.

The evidence revealed that the prosecutrix, Emma Lois Oslin, was at the time of the alleged offense thirteen years of age. She is a sister of the wife of the defendant. In March, 1947, the defendant and [585] his wife moved to the Bryant home where defendant worked on the farm operated by Oslin, the father of the prosecutrix and defendant’s…