Gillis v. State

Upon an indictment therefor, Gillis, the appellant, was tried upon the charge of statutory rape of one Sallie Wahlington. From a conviction and sentence of thirty days imprisonment in the county jail and a fine of three hundred dollars, he prosecutes this appeal.

It is unnecessary to detail the facts of the case, save to say that the prosecutrix testified that the crime occurred on the night of August 6, 1927, when she and the defendant were taking an automobile ride. She- was á schoolgirl not quite fifteen years of age, and he was a young man of some twenty-one or twenty-two years. A baby was…