Legal Opinion

Walker v. State

Arizona Supreme Court

Decided October 29, 1921No. Criminal No. 511PublishedCited by 19 opinions

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Maricopa. R. C. Stanford, Judge.

1Opinion of the CourtMcALISTER, J.

The appellant herein, Lewis Walker, was convicted of the crime of rape, and given an indeterminate sentence of not less than twenty-five *60nor more than thirty years in the state prison. He appeals from this judgment and the order denying him a new trial.

There are three assignments of error. The'first is the denial of appellant’s motion for a new trial, based upon the ground that the state failed to prove that at the time of the alleged rape on October 26, 1920, the prosecuting witness was not the wife of the defendant. It is true that there is no direct-evidence in the record on this material…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. People v. WellsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1893
  2. State v. IrwinIdaho Supreme Court · 1903
  3. People v. MullingsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1890
  4. State v. GleimMontana Supreme Court · 1895
  5. Munger v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Lovely v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1948
  2. Webster v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1967
  3. State v. SingletonArizona Supreme Court · 1947
  4. Harris v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1950
  5. State v. PolanArizona Supreme Court · 1954

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