Miller v. State

The plaintiff in error, Oswell Coy Miller, was charged in the district court of Tillman county, Oklahoma, with the crime of rape in the second degree, Title 21, § 1114, O. S. A. 1941. The crime was alleged to have *298been committed by the defendant on March 18, 1948, by carnally knowing DeLois Godfrey, then 14 years of age, contrary to law. The defendant was tried by a jury, convicted and his punishment set at one year in the penitentiary, and judgment and sentence entered accordingly.

Briefly, the facts are, the defendant was coach and principal of the Manitou High School where DeLois Godfrey…