Haga v. State

BRETT, Judge:

Jesse John Richard Haga was charged by information filed in the district court of Tulsa County with rape in the first degree; was tried before a jury, found guilty and his punishment fixed at 15 years in the State Penitentiary. (This was the minimum punishment for this crime at the time judgment and sentence was entered. 21 O.S.1961, § 1115, amended in 1965.)

For reversal counsel in brief argues but one proposition: that the verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence.

The prosecuting witness was the 14-year-old daughter of the defendant. She testified (and a copy of her birth…