State v. Olson

WOLFE, Justice.

Defendant appeals to this court from a conviction on a charge of carnal knowledge. The crime was alleged to have taken place at Roosevelt, Utah, on July 30, 1939, on which day defendant, together with the prosecutrix, age 15, and another couple, made an automobile trip from Vernal Utah, to Roosevelt and return.

The prosecutrix testified that the four persons went to a cafe in Roosevelt where they drank some beer. While there, she and the defendant left the other couple and went out of the cafe to the place where the act was alleged to have been committed. Later the same evening…