Bueno v. People

In March, 1891, plaintiff was indicted and convicted in the district court of Las Animas county for the crime of rape, alleged to have been perpetrated upon the *233person of one Lupa Frata Consaluz. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled, and a sentence of three (3) years imprisonment imposed.

In this case the conviction rests upon the testimony of the prosecuting witness, slightly corroborated, in one particular only, by the evidence of another Mexican woman, one Lucia Barela, the prosecutrix, as is frequently the case from the character of the offense, being the only one who testified…