State ex rel. Wilkins ex rel. Wilkins v. Markway

DALTON, Judge.

This is an action for $50,000 actual and $50,000 punitive damages based upon the charge that in April 1955, Jo Ann Wilkins, a minor under the age of 17 years and confined in the Cole County Jail in Jefferson City, was unlawfully and criminally assaulted and sexual intercourse had with her on several occasions by defendant Man-kin, a deputy sheriff and jailer in charge of said jail; and that as a result of such intercourse she became pregnant and subsequently gave birth to a child on January 19, 1956, whom she has had to care for and support. The acts were charged to have been…