State v. Wood

In the circuit court of Oregon County, Missouri, appellant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape and his punishment assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From this sentence he has duly appealed.

Appellant contends that his motion for a directed verdict should have been sustained because of the contradictory statements of prosecutrix under oath and because her evidence was not corroborated.

The evidence shows that on June 2, 1945, prosecutrix was fifteen years of age. On that date appellant picked her up at her sister’s home, drove her out on the Couch road…