State v. Gibson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant was convicted of the felonious crime of statutory rape.

It appears that in 1929, when the offense was committed, the prosecuting witness, Mary Zentz, then seventeen years old, lived with her parents in Marysville. The defendant, Nathaniel Gibson, also about seventeen years old, lived with his parents on a farm near Oketo, a few miles north of Marysville. In February of that year these two young persons became acquainted; and in April, according to the girl’s testimony, illicit sexual relations began between them and continued…