Gooding v. State

BRETT, Judge.

Plaintiff in error, Virgil Gooding, was charged by information in the District Court of Pawnee County, Oklahoma, with the crime of rape in the second degree, allegedly committed on the 28th day of June, 1958. He was tried by a jury, convicted, and his punishment fixed at eight years in the state penitentiary. Judgment and sentence were entered accordingly, from which this appeal by transcript has been perfected.

Examination of the transcript reveals that the information is clear and concise. It charges the defendant in the language of the statute with unlawfully having had sexual…