State v. Mitchell

In the Circuit Court of Howard County, an information was filed under Section'3999, Revised Statutes 1929, charging the appellant with' forcibly ravishing one Mary Ann Constantz on July 9, 1933. . A change of venue was granted to Randolph County, where on December 18, 1934, the appellant was found guilty and bis punishment, assessed at ten years in the State, penitentiary.

At the time of the alleged offense* the prosecutrix was sixteen years of age and. lived with .her parents' at Fayette, Missouri. ., About seven-thirty p.' m., on that date, the appellant, in company with Emery Smith an.d-…