State v. Aveen

Peterson, Justice.

Defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction under a charge of raping a 19-year-old girl. The only substantial issue is whether it was prejudicial error to admit evidence, in the prosecution’s case in chief, that the complaining witness was a virgin prior to the alleged rape, where the defendant made no direct attack upon her prior chastity but in cross-examining her as to the circumstances of the encounter undertook to establish that this act was not committed without her consent.

The relevant factual situation can be simply stated without all the sordid details.…