People v. Linzy

Complainant, a 17-year-old school girl, willingly, but apparently unwittingly, accepted a “lift” from a male stranger in the early evening on October 13, 1968. By her own testimony^, she refers to a two-hour stay with her assailant before and after an act of forcible intercourse at some secluded spot near her home. When finally released, she ran home and reported the incident to her parents who, in turn, notified the State Police.

There is no real doubt that the record affords sufficient corroboration that intercourse was committed by forcible compulsion. The complainant’s mother testified to…