State v. Cobb

Appellant was charged with the crime of statutory rape under Sec. 4393 R.S. 1939. Upon trial, he was convicted and his punishment fixed at five years in the state penitentiary.

The information, as filed in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, charged that the offense was committed in that city on August 8, 1947 upon the thirteen year old female child named therein. Prosecutrix reached the age of thirteen years on December 30, 1946. Defendant, who was 53 years of age, was arrested on September 19, 1947, after the discovery of prosecutrix' pregnancy on September 15, 1947. At…