State v. Smith

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

The appellant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape in the district court of Comanche county, and appeals to this court. The evidence was of the most extraordinary character, and, aside from the circumstance that the defendant departed from the state and was arrested elsewhere, which fact seems to have been given great prominence, consisted almost *384entirely of the statements of the injured party. While there is evidence sufficient to sustain the finding of the jury, the statements of the injured party, long persisted in out of court,…