State v. Bell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Defendant was convicted in the district court of Lyon county of the crime of statutory rape. The state’s evidence tended to show that the offense was committed by defendant upon the person of a female child of fifteen years, on the evening of June 11, 1925, at some distance into the country, near Emporia, the home of the girl’s parents. On their return to the girl’s home her mother heard a conversation between them in which defendant said, "Irene, don’t cry; you haven’t done anything so bad; I have been a brute to you.” Next morning the…