People v. Gray

Mr. Chiep Justice Carter

delivered the opinion of the court:

Charles R. Gray, plaintiff in error, was indicted by the grand jury of Jersey county, at the September term, 1910, for the crime of rape upon one Josephine Miles. He was afterward convicted in the circuit court of that county and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary. After motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled and judgment entered bn the verdict this writ of error was sued out.

The prosecuting witness was fifteen years of age on May 17, 1911. Plaintiff in error, at the time of the alleged…