State v. Stocker

Defendant appeals from conviction of forcible rape, former ORS 163.210, committed on June 30, 1971. Testimony of the prosecutrix, supported by cogent circumstantial evidence, was that the defendant and another man forced the victim hitchhiker into their pickup after struggling with her and striking her on the head with a stick sufficient to cause a bleeding wound, took her to a creek while she washed up, and then took her to another isolated place in the forest where she was threatened with a knife, resulting in her submitting to them. Defendant claimed that she consented to the sexual…