Lindsey v. State

Defendant (Appellant) was convicted of Rape under 1956 Repl. Burns Ind. Stat. Ann. § 10-4201 (Acts of 1941, Ch. 148, § 3) and was sentenced to the Indiana State Reformatory for a term of from two (2) to twenty-one (21) years.

Error assigned challenges the sufficiency of the evidence in that: (1) Prosecuting witness, a sixteen year old girl, was not qualified by the State as to competency; (2) Defendant was not properly identified as being the person who was alleged to have committed the crime charged; (3) The State failed to prove venue, in that it was not proved that the offense occurred in…