Plaster v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was informed against jointly, with Judge Morris and Charley Baldwin, charged with the crime of rape in the first degree; was tried separately and convicted of rape in the first degree; and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for one year. Motion for new trial was filed, considered, and overruled, and exceptions saved, and the case appealed to this court.

The testimony on behalf of the state, in substance, is as follows;

Madeline Finley, called as a witness, testified:

“I am a married woman, married on the 30th…