State v. Johnson

[ 219] Appellant was charged and convicted of the crime of statutory rape under Sec. 4393, R. S. 1939 and his punishment fixed at a term of two years imprisonment in the state penitentiary. '

The State’s evidence tended to show that the prosecuting witness became 15 years of age on April 3, 1947 and that, thereafter, in November of that year she began to “keep company” with appellant, who at that time was about 19 years of age; that he “made love” to her and on December 10, 1947, in Douglas County, Missouri, he had sexual intercourse with her; that it ivas the first time she had had sexual…