State v. Clark

Defendant was convicted of the crime of forcible rape and has appealed from the judgment and sentence.

About four o’clock of the afternoon of December 6, 1928, the prosecuting witness, age fourteen years, departed from school at Roy, Washington, for her home. While following a trail through a wooded section, a man jumped out behind the girl from a blind alongside the path, bound a white cloth over her face, picked her up .from the ground where she had fallen, carried her some distance further into the woods and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her. Upon the consummation of the crime, the…