City of New Orleans v. Locke

How courts have described this case

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• applying mistake of fact defense to a charge of rape of an adult and stating that “for one reasonably to believe something, one must have taken such measures as to not be reckless or negligent with respect to the truth of the matter.”
• victim of rape claimed she was asleep when appellant penetrated her and appellant claimed her eyes were open — instruction given on mistake of fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).