Schlegel v. State

Defendant (plaintiff in. error), prosecutes error from conviction and sentence for statutory rape upon a female child 14 years of age. The information charges, in substance, that on or about January 15, 1940, in Hamilton county, Nebraska, defendant, a male person over 18 years of age, did unlawfully and feloniously carnally know and abuse' a female child under 15 years of age, who was not his sister or daughter. To this information defendant pleaded not guilty. Upon trial to a jury he was found guilty with a recommendation for leniency. Motion for new trial was overruled and the trial court…