State v. Gotfrey

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Defendant Kenneth Gotfrey appeals from his conviction by a jury on two counts of statutory rape,1 and one count of forcible sodomy,2 on all of which he had been jointly charged. His grounds of attack are: (1) Insufficiency of the evidence, (2) error in denying his claim of a psychologist-patient privilege, and (3) in denying defendant’s motion to quash the information for improper joinder of offenses therein.

The acts of statutory rape charged were upon defendant’s step-daughters. Petrita Garcia testified that on September 11, 1975, (she was then 12 years of age) the…