State v. Youman

The defendant was convicted of rape in the first degree and sentenced to “from one to five years in the penitentiary.” At the time of the act, charged as occurring March 19, 1933, the prosecutrix was sixteen and the defendant twenty-seven years of age. The prosecutrix testified to four previous acts with the defendant, and that a child was born to her during the latter part of October, 1933. The defendant urges eight assignments of error in the first of which he states that,

“The court committed error in preventing the defendant from showing promiscuous acts of intercourse on the part of the…