State v. Quirk

Tidball, District Judge.

The defendant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape on the person of his fifteen year old daughter and was sentenced to the penitentiary. From such conviction and sentence he has appealed. The offense for which defendant was tried is alleged to have been committed in the town of Pine Bluffs in Laramie County on February 5, 1927, in a feed barn of defendant’s.

The prosecutrix testified to several prior acts of intercourse between her and defendant in this barn. She testified that on some of these occasions, tho not on February 5th, 1927, the date of the act on…