Younger v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the district court for Lancaster county of rape with force and violence upon *202one Myrtle Furlong, and prosecutes error to this court. A brief statement of the facts is necessary to the understanding of the questions presented. On the night of February 6, 1907, the prosecuting witness, a girl between 15 and 16 years of age, who worked in the office of the Nebraska Telephone Company near Thirteenth and O streets in the city of Lincoln, stopped work at 10 o’clock. A few minutes afterwards she left the office with two other young women, who accompanied her to a…