Miller v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Canadian county of the crime of rape in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the penitentiary for 15 years.

The evidence of the state was that the prosecuting witness, Virginia Miller, was the foster daughter of the defendant, having been taken into the Miller home when she was about eight years of age; that about a year after she was taken into defendant’s home he began a course of familiar conduct with her, and that this continued from that time until about November,…