Crago v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Crook County; HoN. E. C. Bayhond, Judge. Charles Crago was convicted of the crime of statutory rape and brings error. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR to the District Court, Crook County; HoN. E. C. Bayhond, Judge. Charles Crago was convicted of the crime of statutory rape and brings error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The court erred in permitting the prosecution to read an affidavit purporting to have been made by the witness Carney prior to the trial, out of court and not in the presence of defendant to the effect that he, the witness, witnessed the commission of the crime, and that defendant had admitted to the witness the commission thereof the following morning, Carney having failed to testify to suit the…
1Opinion of the Court
Blume, Justice.
Defendant was convicted of rape on the person of Ida Leona Edwards, a female under the age of 18 years, and he has brought this case here on petition in error.
The defendant assigns as error the improper impeachment by the state of its own witness Carney. Ida Leona Edwards testified to driving with defendant, Carney, and May Donovan from Spearfish to the ranch of defendant near Sundance; that all of the parties went into the house at defendant’s ranch, arriving at the latter place at night; that the lamp was lit but subsequently extinguished; that all four got onto one bed,…
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