State v. Newcomer

O. L. Newcomer was prosecuted upon the charge of feloniously having had sexual intercourse with Bertha Ickes, an unmarried female under the age of eighteen years. A conviction followed, and sentence of the court was imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years. It appears that shortly after the act of intercourse the defendant was arrested upon a charge of rape, committed on February 20, 1897; but the parties interested were brought together, and it was agreed that a marriage should take place between the defendant and Bertha Ickes, and that the prosecution should be…