State v. Wynn

HOUSER, Commissioner.

A Jackson County Circuit Court jury found Virgil Major Wynn guilty of rape and fixed his punishment at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Defendant obtained a special order permitting appeal under Supreme Court Rule 28.07, V.A.M.R. The case was submitted here without oral argument upon briefs filed by the state and by defendant, pro se.

The state introduced evidence from which the jury could have found the following facts: Prosecutrix, a female of the age of 17 years, was registered with Mack’s Employment Office in Kansas City. On October 12, 1960 she received a…