State v. Gotfrey

598 P.2d 1325 (1979)

STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

Kenneth Eugene GOTFREY, Defendant and Appellant.

No. 15804.

Supreme Court of Utah.

July 26, 1979.

Bryce K. Bryner, Helper, for defendant and appellant.

Robert B. Hansen, Atty. Gen., Earl F. Dorius, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and respondent.

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Defendant Kenneth Gotfrey appeals from his conviction by a jury on two counts of statutory rape,[1] and one count of forcible sodomy,[2] on all of which he had been jointly charged. His grounds of attack are: (1) Insufficiency of the evidence, (2) error in…