West Virginia Supreme Court October 20, 1925, 5460 (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.