STATE v. PURVIS


157 Conn. 198 (1968)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. WILLIAM PURVIS

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided November 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine G. Roraback, for the appellant (defendant).

Richard P. Sperandeo, assistant state's attorney, with whom, on the brief, were George R. Tiernan, state's attorney, and David B. Salzman and Robert K. Walsh, assistant state's attorneys, for the appellee (state).

KING, C. J., ALCORN, HOUSE, THIM and RYAN, JS.


HOUSE, J.

The defendant was charged with the crimes of rape and kidnapping. He was tried to the jury, found guilty of both offenses and has taken the present appeal from his conviction.

The state offered evidence from which the jury could properly find that the defendant first came upon the sixteen-year-old victim of his attack when he found her and her escort in a car which was stuck in mud on a road in Hamden late...

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