State v. Brewster

The charge against the defendant is that of rape, alleged to have been committed upon the prosecutrix, forcibly and against her will.

One of the contentions of the appellant is that the place of the commission of the offense was not established by the evidence as being in Polk County. One of the witnesses for the State testified, in substance, that the place of the crime was about one mile west of Fort Des Moines, and that it was about two blocks south and one block east of the paved road which runs in a westerly direction from said fort, and that she knows that said place is in Polk County.…