State v. Stevenson

BECKER, Justice.

Defendant was charged by county attorney’s information with the crime of rape, tried to a jury, convicted, and sentenced to a term not to exceed 25 years. Defendant appeals from the denial of his motion for a directed verdict, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to establish lack of consent on the part of the complaining witness.

I. This is not a question of insufficient corroboration. Section 782.4, Code, 1966, requires only that complainant’s testimony be corroborated by evidence tending to connect defendant with the crime. See State v. Escamilla, 182 N.W.2d 923, 924…