Sanders v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted in Pittsburg county district court, of rape in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at seven years in the penitentiary. From which judgment the defendant appealed.

The substance of the evidence in this case tends to show that Henry Sanders and the prosecuting witness, Ruby Blair, lived in and near Eufaula, in McIntosh county, Okla.; that on October 20, 1928, the defendant drove to near the house of a Mr. Gilland and by previous arrangement met Mary and Jewell Gilland and Ruby Blair, who got in the car with him and…