State v. Olsen

This defendant and one William H. Donaldson were jointly indicted by the grand jury of Lane county, Oregon, on the charge of assault with intent to commit rape. Separate trials were had. Donaldson was acquitted, and this defendant was convicted and sentenced to serve a term of 15 years in the state penitentiary. From the judgment of conviction he appeals.

The defendant, a young man about 26 years of age, who resides at Eugene, is by occupation a writer of short stories. It appears that on the evening of June 12,1931, he was visited by two young men friends, and, after the three had indulged in…