State v. Sims

Mulroney, J. —

The defendant appeals from his conviction of. rape, and here asserts the main error was the trial court’s admission of his written confession.

There was abundant testimony that on the evening of January 14, 1949, Norma Flynn, a sixteen-year-old girl, was raped. The attack occurred shortly after eight p.m. while Norma ivas walking from church to a home in Sioux City to keep, a baby-sitting engagement. She made immediate complaint to her family and the police, to whom she gave the story and a description of her assailant, and she was examined by a doctor and taken to the hospital…