State v. Burns

The defendant was convicted of having had carnal knowledge of the prosecutrix, a girl of the age of fifteen years. The offense, under our statute, constituted a felony and is punishable accordingly. The defendant appeals and has assigned numerous errors which his counsel, in their brief, however, state “involve but four or five legal questions.”

Counsel, in their brief, have devoted much time and space to a discussion of the evidence, and they earnestly contend that it is insufficient to sustain the verdict of the jury. We could subserve no good purpose in reviewing the evidence in this…