Opinion ID: 2174829
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Heading: At the threshold an understanding of the instantly applicable statute and attendant established guiding principles is in order.

Text: The Code 1971, Section 782.4 provided, in relevant part: The defendant in a prosecution for    assault with intent to commit rape    cannot be convicted upon the testimony of the person injured, unless she be corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense. That enactment was so amended by the 1974 Session, Sixty-Fifth General Assembly, Senate File 1009, Section 2, as to remove the element of corroboration noted above. But this amendment did not become effective until July 1, 1974. See The Code 1973, Section 3.7. Therefore we are here bound by the provisions of § 782.4, quoted above.