Ellis v. State

Defendant, Turner Ruben Ellis, was charged jointly with Roy Roberts and Floyd Kent Jarrard in Muskogee county with the crime of rape in the first degree. A severance was granted, and defendant was tried, convicted, and by the court sentenced to serve a term of 20 years in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed.

This is a companion case of that of Roberts v. State, 87 Okla. Cr. 93, 194 P. 2d 219. The facts are identical with the facts in that case, as they arose out of the same transaction, and it is, therefore, unnecessary to here re state them. The evidence is practically the same as in the…