State v. Wilson

248 S.W.2d 857 (1952)

STATE

v.

WILSON.

No. 42785.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

May 12, 1952.

Joseph Noskay, Milton M. Metz, St. Louis, for appellant.

J. E. Taylor, Atty. Gen., John S. Phillips, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

TIPTON, Judge.

In the circuit court of the city of St. Louis the appellant was convicted of the crime of forcible rape and his punishment assessed at twenty-five years' imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From this sentence he has duly appealed to this court.

The prosecutrix was a nurse and worked at a city hospital. She lived in a first floor apartment on…