State v. Walton

MABRY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction upon a charge of statutory rape, alleged to have been committed at Alamogordo, Otero County, New Mexico, upon a girl of the age of fourteen years and therefore under the age of consent.

There are several assignments of error, but we shall notice here only those that we deem important and which raise questions determinative of the appeal.

Appellant assigns error in the Courtis permitting, over objection of appellant, the prosecutrix to be asked and allowed to answer the question of whether she had ever had sexual intercourse with any person…