State v. Godwin

The appellant, Godwin, was convicted of the crime of carnally knowing a female child, the child being at the time of the commission of the offense under the age of consent.

The first assignment of error to be noticed is, that the evidence does not justify the verdict of the jury. The date of the commission of the offense was laid as of June 30, 1923, and the appellant’s evidence tended somewhat strongly to show that he was not at the scene of the crime at that time. But, without going into the evidence in detail, it is enough to say that the evidence on the question was conflicting, and that…