State v. Blakeslee

MR. JUSTICE DAVIS:

The appeal here is by the appellant Blakeslee (hereafter the defendant) from a judgment of conviction rendered in the district court for Powell County and from an order denying his motion for a new trial upon his plea of not guilty to an information charging statutory rape alleged to have been com*49mitted by him about September 1, 1954, on Ms step-daughter, an eleven year old girl. The jury’s verdict found him guilty and fixed his punishment at forty-five years in the state penitentiary. Judgment on the verdict followed on March 28, 1955. His motion for a new trial was denied…