State v. Steele

—The State, through an indictment duly returned by the grand jury, charges that the defendant-appellant, “on or about the first day of December, A. D. 1927, in [Guthrie] county # * * did willfully, knowingly, and feloniously carnally know and abuse Wilma Huitt, a female child then and there under the age of 16 years * * *, the said [appellant] being then and there a male person of the age of more than 25 years. ’ ’

It is claimed by the State that the appellant, who was a janitor for a school building at Panora, committed the foregoing offense with the prosecutrix, Wilma Huitt, while she was an…