State v. Ferguson

The defendant, James L. Ferguson, Jr., was found guilty by a jury of the crimes of rape and robbery. He was sentenced to a term of 5 to 8 years for the rape and 3 to 4 years for the robbery, the sentences to be served consecutively. The defendant’s principal complaints on appeal assert a lack of sufficient corroboration for the offense of rape, and excessiveness, of the sentences.

The complaining witness was a young married woman, separated from her husband, and living alone in a basement apartment at 1003 East 4th Street in North Platte, Nebraska. She attended college from 1964 to 1967, and…