State v. Trujillo

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATSON, J.

This appeal is from a conviction and sentence for statutory rape.

The prosecutrix, 15 years of age, was living with a 9 or 10 year old brother, and a sister 6 years old, and two older brothers. At 9 or 10 o’clock in the evening she and her youngest brother and her sister were alone and asleep in the house. Appellant, the husband of the prosecutrix’ older sister, entered the house, came to prosecutrix’ bed, and, on the latter calling out, seized her by the throat, threw her down on the floor, pulled her out of the house, took her some distance to a clump of bushes,…