State v. Boyd

WEATHERBEE, Justice.

On September 11, 1970 the Defendant, a young black man, was found guilty by a jury of the crime of rape from which this appeal is taken.

The testimony reveals that the jury could properly have found that about 9:30 P.M. on the night of June 22, 1970 the victim of the assault, a 17 year old girl, was walking up Congress Street in Portland approaching Longfellow Square from the west. A short way above the Sportsman’s Grill, and on the opposite side of the street, the girl overtook a man who was also walking on the sidewalk.

As the girl started to pass this man he asked her…