State v. Kramer

The trouble with some cases is the people who figure in them. Here, the prosecuting witness charged the defendant with forcible rape, and her testimony substantiated the accusation. The defendant countered with denial of any actual intercourse, and of any force used in the commission of certain admitted familiarities which could by no means be approved by even the most lenient standards of proper conduct. By himself and witnesses he attacked the reputation for chastity of the prosecutrix. On the record, it must be said that neither party came out of the encounter with any added reputation for…