State v. Watson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dallas District Court. — Hon. A. W. Wilkinson, Judge. Upon a trial under an indictment for rape, the' defendant was found guilty, and from a judgment committing him to the penitentiary for a period of five years he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGeawgeK, J.
Tlie alleged rape was upon one Elsie Young, a step-daughter of the defendant, then about eleven years of age. Her statement of the tragical affair is that on the day following Easter Sunday, 1889, her mother had gone to Van Meter, and she went to the seed-house for molasses for the table, and the defendant came in and lay her on some sacks and had intercourse with her; that she called for her younger sister, who came, and the defendant sent her back, and renewed his assault upon Elsie;, that this act was repeated in the same place on the next day, and again, some two or three days thereafter,…
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