Chandler v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the district court of Mayes county on a charge of rape in the second degree, and sentenced to a term of one year in the state penitentiary.

The petition in error assigns various matters, but the brief is limited to the one contention that the court excluded competent and material evidence offered by plaintiff in error in his defense. In the direct testimony of the witness Marie Washam, the state proved that by reason of the intercourse between the defendant and the prosecuting witness she became pregnant. Oñ cross-examination the defendant sought to show…