State v. Winget

6 Utah 2d 243 (1957)

310 P.2d 738

STATE OF UTAH, PLAINTIFF AND RESPONDENT,

v.

KEITH WINGET, DEFENDANT AND APPELLANT.

No. 8630.

Supreme Court of Utah.

May 9, 1957.

J. Vernon Erickson, Richfield, for appellant.

E.R. Callister, Jr., Atty. Gen., K. Roger Bean, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from a rape conviction. Reversed and a new trial granted.

Defendant's 8 year old daughter by a wife who divorced him in 1952, went to visit with him on a Sunday in September, 1956. The next day, after experiencing some hemorrhaging, she told her mother that the defendant had raped her. Over the…