State v. Collins

STEWART, Justice:

Defendant Collins was convicted by a jury of rape and forcible sodomy in violation of §§ 76-5-402 and 76-5-103, U.C.A. 1 He received concurrent prison sentences of one to fifteen years in the state prison. On appeal defendant seeks reversal of his convictions or a new trial on the grounds that the trial court improperly excluded results of a polygraph examination and that he was wrongly joined with two co-defendants.

This case arose from a hitchhiking incident in November 1977. Two fourteen-year-old girls, Stephanie and Susan, decided after an outing in Salt Lake City to…