State v. Winfree

On November 14, 1930, the defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Deschutes county for the crime of rape. The charging part of the indictment reads as follows:

“The said Jeff Winfree on the twentieth day of July, A. D. 1930, in the said county of Deschutes and the state of Oregon, then and there being, did then and there carnally know Ruby Winfree, a female child under the age of sixteen years, the daughter of said Jeff Winfree, contrary, etc.”

On this indictment he was tried and convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. Defendant appeals.

The defendant- and his wife, the…