State v. Hamilton

Defendant was convicted by jury of statutory rape on a 15-year-old girl and appeals from a judgment sentencing him to three years’ imprisonment. Defendant assigns as the principal error the action of the court in allowing testimony that defendant on one occasion gave the prosecutrix some pills called “dexes” prior to having intercourse with her and on another occasion gave her what defendant called an LSD pill prior to intercourse.

Defendant and the 15-year-old victim first met in October 1969, and saw each other covertly through February 6, 1970, against her mother’s wishes. The first…