State v. Beacraft

Fox, Judge:

Benjamin Beacraft was indicted and convicted in the Circuit Court of Berkeley County for the crime of statu tory rape upon his stepdaughter, Rosa Butts, and sentenced to the penitentiary for an indeterminate sentence of five to twenty years. To the judgment of sentence, he prosecutes this writ of error.

The State filed a bill of particulars, which stated that defendant had sexual intercourse with prosecutrix for the first time shortly after Christmas, 1941, at Jones Springs, in Berkeley County, and thereafter about every one or two weeks until her examination by Dr. H. R. DuPuy,…