Shapard v. State

BUSSEY, Judge.

John William Shapard, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted for the crime of Rape in the Second Degree in the District Court of Canadian County, sentenced to serve five years imprisonment, and appeals.

In his brief, defendant argues numerous assignments of error under seven separate propositions. For the purpose of clarity, we will deal with each of these assignments of error as they arose in the pre-trial proceedings and during the trial, without regard to the propositions under which they were urged in the defendant’s brief.

The defendant, age 16, was charged…