Rogers v. State

This appeal is from a verdict and judgment finding the appellant guilty of rape and sentencing him to imprisonment for life.

We find the evidence sufficient to support the verdict. At the time of the offense, March 10, 1963, the prosecutrix was twelve years old. The accused, a mature divorced man, had been keeping company for several months with the child’s mother, a widow. On the day in question Rogers asked the child to stay with his own mother, who was ill, while he did some carpentry work at a house nearby. The two left the child’s home in his ear, but he did not drive to his mother’s…