Stevens v. State

BRETT, Judge.

The plaintiff in error, Delmer Stevens, defendant below, was charged by information in the District Court of Garfield County, Oklahoma, with the crime of first degree rape, 21 O.S.1951 §§ 1114, 1115, of Mrs. Mary Lou Black, the mother of three children, two girls 12 and 9, and a boy 11, the crime allegedly being committed on October 3, 1955. The defendant was tried by a jury, convicted, his punishment fixed at 15 years in the penitentiary, and judgment and sentence were entered accordingly from which this appeal has been perfected.

At the time the within cause was set for oral…