State v. Catron

Tried to a jury on June 10, 1926, on the charge of raping Clara Pleimling on April 25, 1925, defendant was convicted and sentenced to a term of five years in the State penitentiary, from which an appeal was duly taken.

The evidence adduced on the part of the State warrants the following finding. Clara Pleimling, employed in the city of St. Louis, a young married woman, eighteen years of age, then separated from her husband, with an action for divorce pending, which was later granted, was escorted by one Krueger, a young single man, to a dance at Fenton, in St. Louis County. The conveyance used…