Banks v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

Carnal knowledge; ten years.

The grand jury of Butler County indicted James E. Banks for carnally knowing, or abusing in the attempt to carnally know, the prosecutrix, a girl under the age of twelve years.

Counsel was appointed to represent the appellant at arraignment and trial. After a jury trial the appellant was convicted and sentenced to ten years. He is now represented by new appointed counsel and is before this court with a free transcript.

James Banks had been living with his sister, her husband, and their four children, for over two years. Banks’s eleven year-old niece,…