People v. Dockery

Roy Dockery and two co-defendants, Charles Jackson and James Johnson, were convicted of rape (MCLA § 750.520 [Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.788]), after a jury trial. This appeal is taken as of right by defendant Dockery.'

On the evening of July 2, 1966, on the invitation of defendants, complainant accompanied the three to the apartment of Johnson’s uncle to hear Jackson play the bongo drums, the latter being a professional entertainer. The complainant had known Jackson all her life and Johnson for nearly ten years. Johnson was her sister’s boyfriend at this time. She had not known Dockery before the…