State v. Evans

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The defendant appeals from a conviction of statutory rape. The complaining witness, Hazel B. Evans, was less than fourteen years old at the time of the alleged offense. Shortly before that she had been taken into the defendant’s home at Minneola and adopted by the defendant and his wife as their daughter. She had assisted in the general housework about the restaurant and the hotel which they conducted. She had attended school but little. Her father’s death occurred when she was very young, and from that timé she had lived with her mother and…