Moya v. People

DEFENDANT Moya was convicted of statutory rape of a girl fifteen years of age and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. He brings error. Three grounds are relied on in his brief: (1) Insufficiency of evidence; (2) error in the trial court's ruling sustaining the district attorney's objection to the defendant's offer of oral testimony which, as it is claimed, tended to show that pregnancy of the prosecuting witness was caused by another man; (3) the trial court's refusal to admit in evidence a letter supposed to have the same tendency.

1. If the evidence were manifestly lacking in the…