State v. Berezuk

By information in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, the defendants were charged with the crime of rape alleged to have been committed by force upon one Genevieve Arciszewski on December 16, 1930. They were tried jointly and all were convicted, the jury by separate verdicts fixing the punishment of defendants Berezuk and Robinson at thirty years' imprisonment in the penitentiary and of Gathing at fifteen years. In due course defendants were sentenced in accordance with the verdicts and all have appealed.

The prosecutrix, Genevieve Arciszewski, was between sixteen and seventeen years…