Hogsett v. State

In a prosecution by the state in the district court for Chase county, Jacob Hogsett, defendant, was convicted of rape upon Mattie Redden, a female child fourteen years of age. For that felony he was sentenced to serve a term of seven years in the penitentiary. As plaintiff in error defendant presents for review the record of his conviction.

*770The principal ground urged for a reversal is the failure of the state to prove circumstances corroborating the felonious act to which prosecutrix testified. After two arguments on this point and examination of the evidence at two different times, the court…