People v. Fontana

The appellants were jointly charged, tried and convicted of the crime of rape perpetrated upon the same female and accomplished by each defendant in succession at the same time and place by means of force.

The defendants were riding together in an automobile at night along Twelfth Avenue in Sacramento. They overtook Mrs. Donna Roberts, a young married woman eighteen years of age, who was a total stranger to them. She was walking along the sidewalk. They accosted her, stopped and forced her into the car. She was taken to a secluded field in North *381Sacramento, where, by means of force, first…