People v. Rea

It is the present changing and developing state of the law herein involved which makes this case worthy of comment. The People proved beyond a doubt that the three male defendants did “strike, beat, wound and ill-treat” the young female complainant, and did ‘ ‘ threaten to do corporal harm to her, to harm her and her family,” as charged in the information. In the testimony there were strong intimations that more than the charged assaults had occurred — that some of the bruising, beatings and the threats had taken place subsequent to a series of consummated but uncorroborated rapes.

Throughout…