State v. Charlton

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Tried by a jury, Frankie R. Charlton has appealed from a judgment and sentence of three years’ imprisonment on a charge under § 563.160, V.A.M.S., of taking indecent and improper liberties with a minor, a female of the age of fourteen years.

On this appeal defendant makes three points.

First, error in not striking from the record and not instructing the jury to disregard questions asked of defendant while on the stand whether he had pleaded guilty to a charge of rape in the State of Kansas on May 17, 1957 and whether he had been convicted of that charge. Defendant answered…