Sutherlin v. State

The appellant and his brother, Bert Sutherlin, were charged by affidavit and information with having committed rape upon the prosecuting witness, Mary Preet. The appellant was found guilty as charged, and the jury further found that he was, at the date of the verdict, over sixteen and less than thirty years of age. Thereupon he was fined and disfranchised, and was sentenced to the reformatory “for a term not less than one year and not more than twenty-one years.”

The case was set down for trial on the last day of the October term, 1897, of the Starke Circuit Court, and was upon that day…