State v. Hafner

The defendant was found guilty by a jury of rape and simple assault and has appealed from the judgment. Error has been assigned in several of the court’s rulings on his objections to the admissibility of evidence, and on his motions made during and after completion of the trial, and in the court’s refusal to find certain facts set forth in the draft finding.

A brief summary of the evidence at the outset is appropriate to place the claims of error in perspective before reviewing them in detail. From the evidence offered the jury could have found the following: The complaining witness and her…