State v. Christensen

The defendant was convicted of the crime of rape, and appeals.

The sufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict is not challenged. The prosecutrix, a divorced woman about 24 years of age, testified that, as she left her employment at a restaurant in Provo City, the defendant, about 10 :00 o’clock at night on a public street, in or near the business part of the city, drove his automobile to the curb and hailed her; that she, thinking it was some one with whom she was acquainted, went to the automobile, but then recognized that the defendant was a stranger to her; that she declined to…