State v. Sanders

SADLER, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of common law rape and sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of years. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment and sentence so pronounced upon him.

The victim of the assault was a young woman twenty-two years of age residing' with her parents at Clovis, New Mexico, at which city she was employed in a produce store. On the evening in question, October 6, 1949, at the invitation of a girl friend she went on what is known as a “blind date” to the neighboring town of Portales in Roosevelt County in which county the offense charged took…