People v. Chavez

Richard Chavez was charged in the district court of Pueblo County with forcible rape and statutory rape under C.R.S. 1963, 40-2-25(1 )(b) and (d). The charges arose from an alleged act of sexual intercourse between the defendant and an unmarried seventeen-year-old girl on December 14, 1969, in Pueblo, Colorado.

The jury found Chavez guilty of statutory rape and he was sentenced to the state penitentiary.

The evidence showed that in the early morning hours of that day the prosecutrix voluntarily accompanied the defendant to a vacant house. Once inside, Chavez allegedly insisted that she have…