People v. Phillips

The five defendants were convicted of rape, MCLA § 750.520 (Stat Ann 1951 Rev § 28.788). The 16-year-old complainant testified that on May 29, 1966, she was raped by four of the defendants at the home of defendant Lee, and that the other defendants assisted. She testified further in the course of the trial that she was physically beaten, thrown to the floor and kicked; that defendants, after tearing all her clothes from her body, pushed her onto the bed and held her, while some had intercourse and/or acts of oral perversion with her. The evidence clearly discloses that all the named…