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.
1Opinion of the Court
Kruse, P. J.:
The defendant, a married man having a wife and three children, was indicted for the crime of rape in the first degree committed upon a girl about fourteen years of age, and was convicted of rape in the second degree.
One evening in June, two years ago, the girl left home with a young man about seventeen years of age to watch the loading of a circus at the railroad, a short distance from her home in the village of Carthage. She left her home about nine or nine-thirty o’clock with the young man and returned alone about ten or ten-thirty o’clock in a nervous and excited condition,…
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