State v. Chandler

STORCKMAN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was found guilty of forcible rape as charged in the information and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary. After the overruling of his motion for new trial, the defendant was sentenced in accordance with the verdict and has appealed.

Pauline Robbins, a single woman residing in the City of St. Louis, was 20 years old at the time of the offense alleged to have been committed upon her. On Saturday, October 20, 1956, she went to Cherryville in Crawford County to be with her boy friend, Rainey Godbey, and to stay at his family home over the…