State v. Sykes

EOY, C.

Rape’ Defendant was convicted of raping Eita Washington, a girl nine years old, and was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Both parties are negroes. The child lived in St. Louis, but spent the slimmer with her grandparents, Eiehard Lewis and wife, at Florissant. The Lewis home had two rooms on the ground floor and one upstairs. Lewis had three sons, two of whom slept at home and worked around in the vicinity. A boy, Bichard Jones, seven years old was staying there. Lewis and the defendant had been cutting corn, working in the same fields. Both testified that the defendant…