State v. Owen

LOCKWOOD, Justice.

This is an appeal by Fred Lee Owen from a conviction in the Superior Court of Pima County of the crime of rape.

The incident in question occurred at approximately 12:00 A.M. on February 2, 1962 in a desert area southwest of Tucson, Arizona. During the evening of February 1, 1962 the prosecuting witness had been drinking in a bar. She became involved in an argument and fight with another woman *406and was beaten unconscious or nearly so from blows to her head. After the fight, one Arnold Federico (also a defendant in the action below but acquitted by the jury) and another man…