Harris v. State

The issue presented for review is whether the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing the defendant to nine years and eleven months imprisonment for soliciting a female under the age of eighteen to practice prostitution?

At the trial, S. DS., a fourteen year old girl and a high school freshman, testified that on October 4, 1974, she ran away from her home in Hartford, Wisconsin, and proceeded to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had run away from home for short periods of time on two previous occasions.

S. DS. testified that she spent most of the day in a McDonald’s restaurant on Wisconsin…