STATE v. LEE

No. 51639.

404 S.W.2d 740 (1966)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Charles Edward LEE, Donald Hunt, Richard Leo Carpenter, Donald Wayne Lee, Bill Powell, and Donald Ray Hayes, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

July 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Ben J. Martin, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Springfield, for respondent.

Powell, Jones & Ringer, Dexter, for appellants.


HOLMAN, Presiding Judge.

Each of the six defendants was found guilty of statutory rape and the punishment of each was fixed by the jury at two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. See § 559.260 (all statutory references are to RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S.). All of them have appealed from the judgments entered.

The defendants, young men ranging in ages from 18 to 21 years, lived in the vicinity of Dudley, Missouri. The events here involved occurred in or near...

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