State v. Ruhaak

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of the offense of rape. Prosecuting witness was the adopted child of defendant’s parents. Defendant was a man something- over thirty, and the girl between fifteen and sixteen at the time of the offense, and she had been a member of the family for seven or eight years. It was her claim at the trial that defendant had been having intercourse with her regularly and frequently for several years. Defendant denied that he had ever been intimate with the girl, and claimed that she had been intimate with one Swenson and became pregnant as a result thereof and,…