State v. Friend

Lively, President:

For the crime of statutory rape committed upon Margaret Sisler, a female 13 years of age, defendant was convicted, and on March 25, 1925, was sentenced to 10 years confinement in the penitentiary. On this writ numerous errors are assigned for reversal.

The prosecutrix lived with her mother and step-father within about two miles of Terra Alta, in Preston County. Defendant was about 39 years of age, was married and the father of three children, the youngest being five years of age, and resided in Maryland a short distance from the West Virginia boundary line. About the time of…