State v. Pace

Defendant, a married man fifty years of age, was convicted of the crime of rape on his daughter, Barbara Jean Pace, who at the time of the alleged offense was fourteen years of age and a sophomore in the high school at Sweet Home, Oregon. He was sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the penitentiary.

The contention of the defendant that there is no evidence to support the judgment of conviction and that he was entitled to a directed verdict of acquittal requires a brief statement of the facts. The indictment charges that the crime occurred on August 20, 1948. The State in the early part…