State v. Coffman

WESTHUES, C.

Appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Crawford County, Missouri, of the crime of statutory rape and sentenced to serve two years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled and he appealed to this court.

The prosecutrix who lived in Bourbon, Missouri, was 13 years of age.- She testified that on a Thursday, she thought the 5th day of August, 1948, she went riding with the defendant (18 years old) and Odell Greenlee (17 years old); that the car was parked along a roadway near' the Bine Springs Creek in Crawford County; that…