State v. Jeanoes

Appellant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape, alleged to have been committed on or about March 28, 1920, upon the person of a girl sixteen years of age. This appeal is from the judgment.

Appellant assigns as error the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment, first, in that there is no evidence in the record to prove that appellant and the girl were not husband and wife on the date of the alleged offense, and second, that it is not shown that actual sexual intercourse was indulged in.

With reference to the first contention: We have made a very careful examination of the…