State v. Baca

SADLER, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of statutory rape and sentenced to a term of thirty-five to fifty years in the state penitentiary. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment and sentence so rendered against and pronounced upon him.-

The prosecuting witness was a young girl, only five months past her fourteenth birthday, who resided with her parents at the small settlement of Atarque in Valencia County. Her father owned and operated a ranch near Fence Lake some seven miles from the family home and the wife, mother of the prosecuting witness, frequently accompanied him there to…