State v. Burgdorf

Burgdorf was indicted for the crime of rape alleged to have been perpetrated by him on Anna Rorschach, a girl about sixteen years of age.

The trial of the cause resulted in a verdict of guilty, and *66judgment accordingly, and after moving unsuccessfully for a new trial, this case comes here by appeal.

The only ground relied on for a reversal, is that the verdict is entirely unsupported by the evidence.

Without setting forth in detail the disgusting particulars of this accusation, it is sufficient to say with regard to the salient points in the evidence, that whether we consider the place of the…