Nabower v. State

This was a criminal prosecution for statutory rape, charged to have been committed by defendant upon a 15-year old girl of previous chaste character. Defendant was found guilty.

The sufficiency of the evidence as to corroboration is questioned. Testimony in behalf of the state is that prosecutrix was acting as a maid at a hotel, owned and operated by her grandparents, in the town of Prosser, Nebraska. Defendant roomed and boarded at the hotel, and the prosecutrix testifies that on February 18, 1920, defendant met her in the office at noontime, closed and locked the door, and forcibly had…