State v. Hamilton

On June 2, 1923, the Grand Jury of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, returned in to the circuit court of said city, an indictment, charging appellant Hamilton with statutory rape on Bessie Carter, a female child under the age of sixteen years, in the city of St. Louis aforesaid. The indictment further charges that said defendant did unlawfully and feloniously make an assault on said Bessie Carter, and then and there unlawfully and feloniously did carnally know and abuse her. The defendant was formally arraigned, and entered a plea of not guilty.

The case was tried before a jury on June 26,…