People v. Culver

Defendant, charged with statutory rape and lesser crimes, was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape. The alleged victim of the crime, a child of 14 years of age and hereinafter referred to as prosecutrix, testified to its commission. Defendant took the stand and made an absolute denial of guilt. There were no other witnesses who claim to have been present.' At the request of the wife of defendant and subsequent to his arrest, the prosecutrix wrote out and signed a statement dictated to her retracting a previous verbal statement that defendant was guilty of the crime. The wife of…