BAKKEN v. STATE

No. 1236.

489 P.2d 120 (1971)

John James BAKKEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 1, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor D. Carlson, Public Defender, Bruce A. Bookman, Asst. Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

G. Kent Edwards, Atty. Gen., Juneau, W.H. Hawley, District Atty., Ketchikan, for appellee.

Before BONEY, C.J., DIMOND, RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, and ERWIN, JJ.


RABINOWITZ, Justice.

John James Bakken appeals from his conviction of the crime of statutory rape.1

Bakken was indicted for the statutory rape2 of a 15-year-old girl named Bessie Wilson. At the trial, Stevee Stevens testified that she, Bessie Wilson, and Bakken were all at a party together; that Bessie and Bakken both left the living room; that Bessie was in the bedroom from 3 a.m. to 4 a.m., but she...

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