Abeyta v. People

A criminal information was filed in the district court against the four plaintiffs in error, hereinafter designated as defendants, charging them in the first count with forcible rape, in the second count with assault to commit rape, and in the third count, with kidnapping. Upon trial the jury returned verdicts finding each defendant guilty of rape and kidnapping, and not guilty of attempt to commit rape. Following the overruling of motions for new trial, judgment of conviction was entered and separate sentences to the penitentiary for rape and kidnapping, to run concurrently, were imposed.…