State v. Gude

At the time of the trial of this cause, appellant was twenty-four years of age, and his wife, the prosecuting witness, was fifteen years of age. The record shows that appellant had been indicted for statutory rape upon the prose-cutrix at a time when she was fourteen years of age. On the day that the indictment for rape was to be tried, the parties were married in the vault in the clerk’s office in the courthouse, and at said time appellant gave to his wife the sum of $500. Appellant immediately returned to the home of his parents, and the wife went to the home of her parents. She afterwards…