State v. Shields
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for rape; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Sanford, 3. Upon the trial Ellen "Warner, the complainant, testified that about eleven o’clock "in the evening on which the offence was committed she went to" the York House on Bridge street, in New Haven, kept by John Crawford, for the purpose of seeing his wife and her mother, that she staid there about an hour in a room adjoining the bar room,…
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Indictment for rape; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Sanford, 3. Upon the trial Ellen "Warner, the complainant, testified that about eleven o’clock "in the evening on which the offence was committed she went to" the York House on Bridge street, in New Haven, kept by John Crawford, for the purpose of seeing his wife and her mother, that she staid there about an hour in a room adjoining the bar room, that the defendant and several others were there, who left just before she did, that she then started to go home, and…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
We find no error in this case which entitles the defendant to a new trial.
It appears in the motion that all the rulings of the court in the admission and rejection of evidence, and in the charge to the jury, are made the subjects of complaint. It would be a *263waste of time to remark upon them all, as most of them are manifestly correct.
The'defendant was on trial for-a crime, which the state claimed to have proved was committed in fulfillment of a common purpose and design entered into between the defendant and several other persons who were present aiding and abetting him in the commission of…
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