Reid v. State

POWELL, Judge.

This is an appeal by William Thomas Reid, Jr., from a conviction in the district court of Oklahoma County of the crime of rape in the first degree, on Caroline John-na Baldwin, also known as Carolyn Treisa, a girl just past 14 years of age. The defendant was 21 years old. The jury fixed the punishment at confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of 15 years.

On appeal but two propositions are urged in brief: (1) “It is error for trial court to comment, in presence of jury, on weight of the evidence.” (2) “The verdict rendered by the jury and the judgment entered by the…