State v. Taylor

PORTER, Justice.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury in Payette County of the crime of statutory rape. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for the term of not to exceed five years. From the judgment of conviction entered against him, he has appealed to this court.

On this appeal, appellant lists only two assignments of error. Appellant, by his first assignment of error, contends the trial court erred in giving that part of Instruction No. 7 reading as follows:

“A ‘reasonable doubt’ is what the word implies; a doubt founded in *360reason; a doubt for which you can give a…