State v. Mason

In an information filed in the Circuit Court of Chariton County by the prosecuting attorney, the defendant was charged with carnally knowing Fannie Hedrick, a female child under the age of sixteen years. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and assessed his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary. The defendant appealed from the judgment entered on the verdict.

This is a companion case to that of State of Missouri v. William Conrad, post, page 246, currently decided. The evidence supporting the charge warrants the finding that, on September 15, 1926, between one-thirty and two o'clock in…