State v. Howland

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.;

This was a'Criminal action in which the defendant was charged in two counts with the crime of statutory rape. He was acquitted on one count and convicted on the other, and appeals, specifying claimed errors which, in his brief, are treated under three *12heads — that the trial court erred in excluding certain testimony-, that the verdict was the result of bartering and exchanging votes, and that the jury was illegally permitted to separate.

The contention as to exclusion of-evidencé arises from- the following: After the defendant had testified…