Case ID: mich-app_9/html/0365-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. DUMAS.
    Criminal Law — Assault with Intent to Rape — Evidence.
    Conviction of assault with intent to rape is affirmed on motion by the people to dismiss the appeal or to affirm the eonvietion, where a review of defendant’s brief, the motion to dismiss or affirm, and the record diselose sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction, if such testimony were believed by the trial court (CLS 1961, § 750.85).
    .References for Points in Headnotes
    44 Am Jur, Rape §§ 21-25.
    Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit; Swain-son (John B.), J., presiding.
    Submitted Division 1 December 26, 1967, at Detroit.
    (Docket No. 2,680.)
    Decided February 26, 1968.
    Joseph Nathaniel Dumas was convicted of assault with intent to rape. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Gahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Barbara K. Hackett, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Edtvard M. Babcock, for defendant.
   Per Curiam.

Defendant Joseph Nathaniel Dumas was charged with having committed the act of assault with intent to rape in violation of CLS 1961, § 750.85 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 28.280), in 1966 in the city of Detroit. He was tried by the court without a jury on June 1, 1966, and found guilty.

The appeal tests the sufficiency of the evidence for a finding of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The people file a motion to dismiss the appeal or to affirm the conviction.

A review of defendant’s brief, the motion to dismiss or affirm, and the record disclose sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction, if such testimony were believed by the trial court.

Affirmed.

Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Gillis and Levin, JJ., concurred.