State v. Vance

HaymoND, Judge:

In the trial of an indictment against the defendant, George Yance, for the crime of statutory rape, the jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged and, the State having waived the death penalty, the Circuit Court of Logan County by final judgment entered February 8,1961, sentenced the defendant to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary of this State. To that judgement this Court granted this writ of error upon the application of the defendant.

The defendant, whose exact age is not established by the evidence but who is shown to be well above the age of sixteen years, had…