State v. Jenkins

On October 16, 1942, the prosecuting attorney for Thurston county filed an information charging J. C. Jenkins with the crime of statutory rape. The information contained two counts, in the first of which the act was alleged to have been committed in Thurston county on or about October 1, 1941. The second count charged that the act was committed in Thurston county on or about October 4, 1942.

After defendant had been arrested, and on November 12, 1942, his attorney moved that the state be required to elect upon which count it would proceed. No other objection was made to the form of the…