Cascio v. State

A jury found plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, guilty of rape. He was seventeen years old at the time of the alleged offense. The prosecutrix was then twenty years old, and without mental or physical disability. Defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled, and the trial court sentenced him to serve eight years imprisonment in the State Reformatory, from which he prosecuted error to this' court. His assignments of error are several in number, but in our view of the case, decision requires discussion of only the question of whether or not the evidence was legally sufficient…