State v. Phillips

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon a verdict of guilty of the crime of rape. The evidence is undisputed that the prosecuting witness, a 16-year-old girl, accompanied the defendant and another man (also indicted but not on trial) in the latter’s automobile during the evening to a tavern known as the Seven Mile House located seven miles south of Sandusky. The men spent an hour or so in the tavern drinking beer and occasionally dancing until the place closed some time around midnight. The girl was in the tavern for a short period but had nothing to drink. She spent most of the time…