Cox v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Hughes county of rape in the first degree, and Ms puniskment fixed by the court at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for 25 years.

The evidence of the state was that the defendant and Bo McCullum induced Opal Smith, a young girl between 17 and 18 years of age, who is the prosecuting witness in this case, and one Ruby Woodruff, to get into an automobile with them for a drive about town; that the prosecuting witness was only casually acquainted with the defendant and at first refused to go, but finally…