In re Baldwin

William Baldwin was indicted by the grand jury of Saratoga county for the crime of assault in the second degree and attempted rape. He was convicted upon a trial before the grand jury and sentenced to the State prison at Dannemora. An appeal was taken from the judgment of conviction, and in June, 1910, the Appellate Division of the Third Department reversed the judgment, remanding all proceedings to the Saratoga County Court and directing a new trial. It seemed to be the opinion of the Appellate Division that the testimony of the four-year-old prosecutrix was not sufficiently corroborated…