Hampton v. State

The plaintiff in error, Roger Hampton, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted for violating the age of consent on the person of Bettie Batey, who was between fourteen and fifteen years of age. The defendant was dt the time of the commission of the alleged offense a man twenty-four years of age and was in the United States Army.

It is not seriously insisted here that the evidence preponderates in favor of the innocence of the defendant, but rather that the State having elected to seek a conviction on the act of intercourse alleged to have been committed the latter part of…