State of Oregon v. Edison

The defendant, Earl Edison, a man 51 years of age, was convicted of the crime of rape of a female child under the age of 16 years. He has appealed from a judgment sentencing him to confinement in the state penitentiary for an indeterminate term not exceeding 12 years, assigning as error the denial of his motion for a new trial.

On the trial the state elected to stand upon the specific date of July 17, 1949, as that upon which the crime was committed. The defendant offered evidence tending to show that on that date he was at a different place from that where the crime was alleged to have been…