Cooper v. State

The plaintiff in error will be referred to as defendant, as in the court below.

From a conviction on a charge of rape in the second degree, defendant appeals. The record discloses that in the month of December, 1920, the prosecutrix, Berta Noel, was 15 years of age, attending the Guymon high school as a first year pupil. During that month she met the defendant on two or three occasions when he came where she boarded to call on her. On the 20th of December he met her at the post office, and persuaded her to go to the town of Hooker with him. On that afternoon gave her. $5 for railroad fare and…