Miller v. State

The plaintiff in error, who for brevity will be hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Okmulgee county on a charge of rape in the first degree, and was sentenced to serve a term of 15 years in the state penitentiary.

Defendant is an unmarried white man between 40 and 45 years of age. The rape is charged upon the person of S'arene Guillroy, a French-Negro girl, about 9 years old. Defendant, a cigar maker, lived' alone in the town of Okmulgee. The mother of the Guillroy girl did laundry work for him. The girl and her sister Nellie Guillroy were accustomed to go to…