People v. Estell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Axel Estell, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of blew York, entered on the 26th day of October, 1904, convicting the defendant of the crime of rape in the second degree, and sentencing him to imprisonment in the State prison for the term of two years.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The indictment charged the crime of rape in the second degree, committed upon the person of Elsie Behan, a female under the age of eighteen years, on the 8th day of September, 1904. The proof upon the part of the People tended to establish that the female, Elsie Behan, was of about the age of twelve years; that upon the. date charged in. the indictment the defendant induced her, in company with another girl of about the same. age, to go on board the boat of which he was watchman from the recreation pier ; that he took them into the cabin of the boat, locked the door and had sexual…
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