Rhamy v. State

POWELL, Judge.

Plaintiff in Error, Theodore Rhamy, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged by indictment filed in the district court of Payne County with the crime of rape in the first degree, was tried before a jury, convicted and his punishment fixed at fifteen years, in the state penitentiary. The case is here on appeal.

Interesting to state is that the sentence imposed was the minimum for the crime charged. The girl involved lacked less than two months of being fourteen years of age. And of course, if she had been of that age, the punishment, under the evidence developed, might…