State v. Waldron

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant, John Waldron, was convicted in the district court of Barton county of three offenses of statutory rape on the person of a girl under eighteen years of age. He appeals, assigning various errors, which will be noted seiriatim as they are argued.

Defendant contends that the trial court committed prejudicial error in refusing his application for a change of venue. The circumstances were these: Waldron had been pastor of a leading Protestant church in Great Bend for two or three years, during which time his alleged criminal,…