State v. Shults

BRICE, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape and sentenced to serve a term in the state penitentiary.

The evidence of the eleven year old child, who, it is alleged, was the victim of his lust, is in substance that the appellant induced her to go to a ladies’ toilet owned by him, near his filling station; that he followed and had intercourse with her in the toilet.

The objection was made to the introduction of certain testimony which tended to prove a like offense committed in the same place upon the same child about two weeks after the first, upon the ground that…