State v. Peterson

The defendant, Roy Peterson, has appealed from a judgment of conviction of the crime of rape and from an order denying him a new trial. By his specifications of error he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant a conviction, and specifies error in the court’s ruling on the introduction of certain evidence, misconduct of the county attorney, the refusal of the court to give an offered instruction, and on the denial of his motion for a new trial.

There can be no question but that the testimony of the prosecutrix, if believed, respecting the commission of the crime, was amply…