State v. Scanlon

UDALL, Chief Justice:

Michael Patrick Scanlon was found guilty of attempted rape, and was sentenced to 14 to 15 years in prison. From the verdict and sentence he has appealed.

His wife, Leonore, at the time of her marriage to him, had three children—Victor (15), Rosa (10), and Eva (8). She and defendant became the parents of two more children—Patricia (5), and Kathleen (2).

Rosa testified that one morning her stepfather was drinking, but was “not drinking a lot” and was not “lying like he might have been asleep”, and that he tried to have sexual intercourse with her, after her mother left for…