McKnight v. State

Appellant is condemned to five years in the penitentiary, under conviction for rape upon one Ruby Welsh. It is a consent case.

Prosecutrix is alleged to have been under the age of 18 years. The evidence is un-controverted that prosecutrix was over 15 and under 18 years of age. The defense is predicated upon the averment that she was not chaste.

Prosecutrix testified that the first time she met appellant she went with him in com*893pany with other parties to Cherino. denies that any improper relation occurred between them on this trip. Some days later at a time which witness fixed as before…