Parrett v. State

The appellants in each of the above entitled cases were convicted of the crime of rape upon the person of Elnora Barth, a woman twenty-four years of age. The prosecution was instituted by affidavit filed in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court on September 15, 1925. The charging part of the affidavit is as follows:

“State of Indiana, Vanderburgh County, SS: Elnora Barth being duly sworn upon her oath, says that Robert F. Parrett, Raymond Francis Shine, and Wilmer McGowan, on or about the 23rd day of August, A. D. 1925, at said county as affiant verily believes did then and there unlawfully and…