State v. Casebier

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

The defendant was convicted of statutory rape upon Dorothy Ewings, committed when she was about thirteen and *763one-half years old. The information contained seven counts charging that number of criminal acts, and the jury found him guilty on two of the charges. The sentence imposed was confinement at hard labor in the state penitentiary for a term of from one to twenty-one years on the first count, and the same penalty was adjudged on the second count, the sentences to run consecutively and not concurrently. The defendant appeals, and his…