State v. Iago

On April 21, 1896, the defendant, lago, was tried in the district court of Renville county, and by a jury convicted of the crime of rape. The indictment charged him with having on August 13, 1895, feloniously and forcibly ravished and had sexual intercourse with one Hedwig Doepke, against her will and without her consent, and that he then and there forcibly overcame her resistance, she being then and there a woman above the age of 18 years, and not the wife of lago.

The prosecutrix, at the time of the alleged offense, was an unmarried woman, 20 years old, weighing 90 pounds, living with and…