Eberhart v. State

The appellant was indicted for the crime of rape, was tried therefor, and found and adjudged guilty.

It is conten 'ed that the evidence does not sustain the verdict..

The prosecuting witness, Lettie G. Mohler, was thirteen years of age, past, and for two or three years had been subject to epileptic fits. Her' father was a day laborer; while both father and mother were ignorant and credulous, to an extreme degree, though apparently well-minded persons. The girl herself had not gone to school since she had been afflicted with epilepsy, and had gone out nowhere except when accompanied by her…