State v. Hines

OPINION

This is an appeal by John R. Hines who was convicted in the District Court of Weston County, Wyoming, of the crime of statutory rape and of the fact that he was an habitual criminal by reason of two prior convictions of a felony in the State of Missouri.

A criminal information was filed in the District Court of Weston County, Wyoming, on March 1, 1957, charging the defendant with feloniously and unlawfully having carnal knowledge of one Edna Brown, a female child under the age of eighteen years, to wit, the age of fourteen years. The information also charged the defendant under the…