STATE v. VAN DAM

No. 12050.

481 P.2d 53 (1971)

25 Utah 2d 324

STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Stephen Michael VAN DAM, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Utah.

February 17, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter R. Ellett, Dansie, Ellett & Hammill, Murray, for defendant and appellant.

Vernon B. Romney, Atty. Gen., Lauren N. Beasley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and respondent.


HENRIOD, Justice:

Appeal from a rape conviction. Affirmed.

Substantial, admissible and competent evidence viewed favorably to respondent shows that defendant, proven on cross-examination to have been not only a prevaricator but a perennial problem, forced the complainant to lie on a bed in a house where she was trying to do a job of being a mother to two children, one 3 and the other 1 1/2, and at knife-point, raped her. He involved his whole family, —...

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