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- Title: State v. Boyd
- Author : New Mexico Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 18, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 47 KB
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Defendant was convicted of rape, § 40A-9-2, N.M.S.A. 1953 (Repl. Vol. 6), and sodomy, § 40A-9-6, N.M.S.A. 1953 (Repl. Vol. 6). The appellate issue is the sufficiency of the evidence. Defendant claims that the testimony of the prosecutrix was (1) inherently improbable; (2) uncorroborated; and (3) the evidence did not point unerringly to the guilt of the defendant. The basis for these claims is State v. Shults, 43 N.M. 71, 85 P.2d 591 (1938), and State v. Armijo, 25 N.M. 666, 187 P. 553 (1920). State v. Shults, supra, states: