State v. Hook

Defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of statutory rape. From a judgment accordingly, he has appealed. Insufficiency of the corroborating evidence is the sole proposition submitted as a basis for a reversal.

The prosecuting witness, Betty Lou Myers, was thirteen years of age at the time of the alleged offense. The defendant was forty-four years old, married and has a family.

In December 1948, Betty, her father and younger brother, Eugene, were living on a farm near Centerville. Defendant and Alva Myers, Betty’s father, were engaged in cutting timber near the farm and part of…