State v. Rodriguez

The defendant, by county attorney’s information, was accused of the crime of rape, by force and against her will, of a woman over seventeen years of age, as defined in section' 698.1, Code of 1946 (section 12966, Code of 1939). The crime is alleged in the information to have been committed October 18, 1945. Following a plea of not guilty the cause was tried to a jury, which returned a verdict of guilty, and on the overruling of exceptions to instructions and motion for new trial defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the reformatory. From the judgment and sentence defendant appeals.

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