Bedgood v. State

Bedgood, Hill and Bozell, the appellants, were convicted of the crime of rape. With them were indicted Henry Shumway, and Andrew Gaston. A nolle was entered as to Shumway and Gaston was acquitted.

Ardelle Tilford, the woman upon whom it is alleged the rape was committed, gives substantially this account of herself and of the crime charged against the appellants: She was a married woman, twenty-one years of age, and lived with her husband in the village of Jonesville. There were inhabited houses not far from the house in which she lived. On the night of-the 7th day of January, 1888, the persons…