Johnson v. State

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction rendered upon the verdict of a jury, finding the defendant, Diek Johnson, guilty of rape in the first degree, and fixing his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for 20 years. The information charges that Dick Johnson, Forest Johnson, Raymond Scaggs, and Dan Scaggs, did in Delaware county, on or about the 13th day of August, 1919, unlawfully, feloniously, and by force and violence overcoming her resistance, have sexual intercourse with Lillie Hayes, she, the said1 Lillie Hayes, not being the wife of either of said defendants. A severance…