State v. Wamsley

Woods, Judge :

Having been adjudged guilty of the crime of rape and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary, the defendant brings error.

' From the viewpoint of the State, the evidence is as follows: Nina Paugh, the prosecutrix, was sixteen years of age on the 18th day of April, 1929. On the afternoon of August 16,1929, the prosecutrix, who lived with her father on a farm about seven miles from Elkins, was working with the family in the hayfield, which was near the house. About five o’clock her father and step-mother went to Elkins with their trade. A few minutes thereafter Nina left the…