Elmer v. State

Robert C. Elmer was charged under the provisions of § 6-63(A), W.S.1957 (1969 Cumulative Supp.), with the forcible rape of Diana Flis, a 19-year-old, unmarried girl, on February 25, 1968. He was tried by jury, convicted, sentenced to a term of two to four years, and has appealed, charging various errors. The first four of these, although listed separately as identification, alibi, flight, and improbability of the testimony of the complaining witness, must be categorized and treated as aspects of a claimed insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict and judgment. In addition to this…