State v. Shelby

Appellant was charged by information in the Circuit Court of Atchison County with the crime of rape, it being alleged that the offense was committed on or about the 6th day of July, 1927, upon one Elfrieda Shelton, a female child under the age of sixteen years. Upon a trial he was convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years, and from such sentence this appeal ’has been duly prosecuted.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict is not challenged. Appellant was a married man, about thirty-eight years of age, at the date of the commission of…