People v. Martínez Figueroa

The district attorney filed an information against the five appellants charging them with the offense of rape, alleging that on May 14, 1956 they “unlawfully, wilfully, maliciously, acting in common concert, by the use of force, violence, intimidation, and against her will, lay and had sexual intercourse with R... R... R..., who was not there and then the defendants’ wife.” The trial having been held before a court without a jury, the prosecution introduced oral and documentary evidence — the latter consisting in the statements given by defendants in the course of the preliminary…