State v. Taylor

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

The defendant, Clay Henry Taylor, was convicted of molesting a child under the age of fifteen years, in violation of K. S. A. 38-711 (formerly 1961 Supp., 38-711). He was sentenced to life imprisonment under the Habitual Criminal Act and brings this appeal.

Briefly stated, the state’s evidence shows that the defendant (sometimes called Taylor herein) accosted a twelve-year-old boy in one of Topeka’s parks on a summer evening in July 1964 and committed an act of gross indecency upon him; that a few days later the lad saw the defendant…