State v. Hoel

Appellant, Clarence Hoel, a farmer forty-two years of age, was charged with statutory rape upon a female child under sixteen years of age,-was convicted of the included offense of assault with intent to commit rape, and appeals. This case arose out of the circumstances detailed in State v. Evenson, 237 Iowa 1214, 24 N. W. 2d 762. The record is much the same as in that case and contains evidence tending to show:

Appellant and Evenson had been drinking beer together and were walking around in Mason City at about noon. Evenson gave a boy a nickel to get a girl. The boy procured a girl, aged…