STATE v. GOODSON

No. 5265.

217 P.2d 262 (1950)

54 N.M. 184

STATE v. GOODSON.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

April 15, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe L. Martinez, Atty. Gen., W.R. Kegel, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Richard H. Robinson, Carlsbad, for appellee.


McGHEE, Justice.

The question for decision is whether a plea of guilty and sentence in the court of a justice of the peace on a charge of assault and battery is a bar to a subsequent prosecution on an information charging rape by force on the female who filed the complaint in the justice court.

Shortly after the information was lodged in the District Court the defendant, appellee here, filed a motion to dismiss upon the ground that he had theretofore entered...

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