People v. Soto

Defendant Fernandez, aged 18, appeals from a conviction of forcible rape of a 14-year-old girl named Judy. He also appeals from an order denying Ms motion for new trial.

If guilty, appellant was a party to a fiendish sexual orgy in which some 15 to 18 young men, by apparent prearrangement, took Judy at night into a field of haystacks, and there gratified their lusts upon her person for a period of three or four hours. Fernandez and four codefendants were convicted.

Appellant claims that he did not attack Judy and was not present at the scene; that the evidence upon which he was convicted is not…