State v. Tracy

REDDING, J. (Pro Tempore).

The defendant, Merle Lee Tracy, was convicted by a jury in Klamath county on both counts of a two-count indictment. He was sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary on count one, in which he was charged with forcible rape, and was sentenced to a six-year consecutive term in the penitentiary on count two, in which he was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. Defendant appeals.

On the 24th of July, 1965, the defendant in company with his pregnant wife, attended a “keg party” at a gravel pit near Lake 0 The Woods some distance from Klamath Falls. The party…