State v. Melchor

The question here presented is whether reversible error was committed by the trial court in fading to give the following requested instruction, wherein for obvious reasons we have substituted the word prosecutrix for the name of the young woman upon whom the assault was made.

“The defendant, ladies and gentlemen, in this case has taken the stand and contends as follows: That he met the prosecutrix on the night of August 4,1935, when he was in the company of some other men; that he had been drinking all during the day and drinking to excess; that he got out of the car and made this young…