State v. Swiger

Litz, Judge:

The defendant, Jesse Swiger, seeks the reversal of a judgment of the circuit court of Randolph County sentencing him to a term of twelve years in the penitentiary on a charge of statutory rape.

April 4, 1927, the defendant, a married man, induced Pearl Carder, a first year high, school girl (who is alleged to have been only fourteen years of age, having been born October 5r 1912), to go with him from her home near Clarksburg to the city of Elkins, where they roomed together at the Tygart Hotel for two nights; then going to Charleston, remained there together at the Peyton Hotel for…