State v. Reid

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

The offense is rape of a female under the age of 18, — the punishment, 2 years.

At the time charged, the prosecutrix was 16 years old and living in the home of her parents at Havre, Montana.

At about 12:15 o’clock on the particular morning charged, the prosecutrix, sitting in her home, heard a loud noise coming from without, whereupon she slipped on her jacket and stepped into the street that passes in front of her home to see what had happened. There, two doors from her home, she observed the wreckage of two automobiles that had just crashed. While she was viewing the…