State v. Garnett

The defendant was found guilty by a jury of the offense of statutory rape, sec. 340.47, Stats., and sentenced by the court to imprisonment in the state’s prison for ten years. The statute defines the offense as carnal knowledge by a person over eighteen years of age with a female under that age. That an act of sexual intercourse by someone with the girl named in the information, hereinafter ref erred to as “Delores,” was manifest at the trial from her advanced state of pregnancy. At the'time Delores claimed the defendant had intercourse with her the defendant was thirty-seven and she was…