State v. Chambers

The four defendants were charged in separate informations with the crime of rape. The cases, being connected, were consolidated for trial and, after the convic- • tions of all four of the defendants, were consolidated again upon appeal.

The prosecutrix was a married woman with a baby about ten months old, whose husband had abandoned her in April, 1954. The four appellants drove to her home shortly after noon on September 17, 1955. There was some talk of going to the Waterville Fair. The prosecutrix took her baby, and the party drove to her sister’s house in Cashmere. No one was home. The…