State v. Hilton

The defendant was charged by indictment with the crime of violating the provisions of the following statute:

“If any person over the age of sixteen years shall carnally know any female child under the age of six-ten years # # such person shall be deemed guilty of rape * * .” Or. L., §1912.

The offense laid in the indictment was alleged to have been committed on March 2, 1925, the fifteenth birthday of Pearl Mitchell, the prosecutrix, who was at that time attending the public schools at Kent, Oregon, and taking music lessons from the defendant. Hilton, the defendant, a man thirty-three years of…