State v. Higginbotham

HaYMOND, PRESIDENT:

At the April Term, 1960, of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, the defendant Clenna Higgin-botham was indicted for the crime of attempt to commit statutory rape upon Sharon Kay "Whitten, a female child under the age of sixteen years. The indictment charged that the defendant, a male person over the age of sixteen years, in December 1959, in Kanawha County, in and upon one Sharon Kay "Whit-ten, a female child, not his wife, under the age of sixteen years and of previous chaste character, did feloniously make an assault and her, the said Sharon Kay "Whitten, then and…