Horn

The defendant .was charged by information with statutory rape, alleged to have been committed by one Orville Taggart, aided and abetted by her, upon the person of one May Bartol, in the county of Del Norte, on or about the eighth day of February, 1913, and the jury adjudged her guilty of ah. attempt to commit the crime so charged, and thereupon, as punishment for the crime, the court sentenced her to imprisonment for a term of four years in the state penitentiary.

This appeal is by the defendant from the judgment and the order denying her a new trial.

The information charges that, on the day above named, the defendant “did then and there willfully and unlawfully and feloniously help, aid, assist and abet, one Orville Taggart, in the perpetration and accomplishment of an act of sexual intercourse, then and there committed by the said Orville Taggart, with and upon one May Bartol, who was then and there a female under the age of sixteen years, to wit: of the age of eleven years, and not then and there the wife of the said Orville Taggart,” etc.

The trial was had in the superior court of Humboldt County, the cause having been removed to said county for trial on the motion of the…