People v. Ely

Appellant, Ross Ely, and two others, John Anderson and Owen Rateau, as codefendants, were convicted of having committed the crime of rape npon one Marjorie Atchison. Sentence was passed npon each of the three defendants. The defendant, Ross Ely, alone has appealed, leave having been granted.

About 8 o’clock in the evening of February 11, 1940, the three defendants while driving an automobile in the business section of Flint took the complaining witness, Marjorie Atchison, and another girl into the automobile. The party then drove to a cemetery which is either in or near the city of Flint and…