Petty v. State

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction in the district court of Tillman county for the crime of statutory rape, committed on one Oma Owens, a female under the age of sixteen, to wit, of the age of fourteen years. February 16, 1913, was the date of the crime, as alleged in the information. By the judgment of the court rendered on the 13th day of June, 1913, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, the plaintiff in error, Henry Petty, was sentenced to be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of five years. •

It is contended for reversal that the court erred in refusing to grant a…