State v. Riggs

Appellant was charged, tried, and convicted of the crime of taking indecent liberties with a female person under the age of fifteen years. His two assignments of error are, first, in admitting the evidence of one witness named Ruth Bortner, and second, in excluding evidence of four character witnesses.

The evidence showed that, October 30, 1947, appellant, a man of the age of seventy-two years, went to the vicinity of the Jefferson grade school, situated south of the city of Everett, and met the girl while she was returning home in the afternoon. He. asked her to accompany him to the Broadway…