People v. Countryman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Richard J. Countryman, from a judgment of the County Court of the county of Jefferson, rendered on the 15th day of February, 1921, convicting him of the crime of rape in the second degree, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of March, 1921, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Dissent
Davis, J. (dissenting):
The verdict favorable to the prosecution permits the assumption of the following facts as testified to by the complaining witness: In the evening, with her mother’s consent, she went to the railroad station with a boy of sixteen to watch the loading of a circus. It was a short distance from her home. While she stood unattended near the railroad tracks the defendant came to her and told her that her father wanted her. She went with him first toward where the circus was, as the defendant had said her father was there; and then they took a short cut across a field where in…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Kelley v. . People of the State of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1874
- People v. . PageNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- People v. MayesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1885
- People v. . OgleNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- People v. . MinskyNew York Court of Appeals · 1919
3 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.