Huckaby v. State

The plaintiff in error, Thomas Robert Huckaby, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged by information filed in the district court of T.ulsa county with the crime of rape in the first degree, was tried before a jury, convicted and his punishment assessed at 35 years in the State Penitentiary at McAlester.

The defendant was arrested June 8, 1948, but was not tried until February 4. 1949. Prior to trial the prosecuting witness, Janie Marie Medlin and her father, Orville Medlin, filed a motion in the district court of Tulsa county setting out that Janie Marie was then fifteen years of…