People v. Baker

This is an appeal by two of four defendants who, in a jury trial, were found guilty of the crime of rape by force and violence in violation of section 261, subdivision 3, of the Penal Code. Appellant Baker was charged in a seven-count information with (a) two counts of forcible rape of the same victim on different dates; (b) four counts charging him with the commission of acts of sexual perversion in violation of section 288a of the Penal Code, and (e) one count of assault upon another party by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury in violation of section 245 of the Penal Code.

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