State v. Martinez

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from 3 rape convictions. Reversed, and remanded for a new trial.

Two of the defendants were 16. The third, and the prosecutrix were 17.

All of the defendants admitted an attempt at or the accomplishment of sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix, whom they had picked up and with whom they had spent the night, either riding around or remaining in a parked car.

Defendants urge that the court erred in 1) admitting evidence that the defendants had been inmates of the State School, 2) by inviting the jurors to question witnesses, which in turn resulted in their inordinate and…