State v. Fletcher

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendant having been tried on an indictment charging him with aggravated rape under Article 42 of the Louisiana Criminal Code, in that he had sexual intercourse with Evelyn Clark, a child under the age of 12, is appealing from his conviction of simple rape and his sentence thereunder, upon the jury’s recommendation of mercy, to serve five years at hard labor in the state penitentiary, claiming that he was unjustly accused and improperly convicted.

The alleged victim, Evelyn Clark, a girl of eleven and a half years and one of five children, was placed by her father after…