State v. Gero

This is a prosecution in the district court for Hall County for forcible rape against the defendant, Paul Wayne Gero. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and defendant was sentenced to serve a term of 20 years in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex. The defendant has appealed to this court.

On the evening of April 17 and the early morning of April 18, 1968, Hazel McAlvey, her daughter, and 1-year-old granddaughter were residing in a trailer house in the rear of another daughter’s home in Wood River, Nebraska. During this period, the daughter residing with the prosecutrix was working…