People v. Bradley

Appeal from a judgment of conviction rendered by the County Court, Kings County, June 26, 1958 sentencing appellant, after he had been found guilty by a jury of incest, to serve from 5 to 10 years. Judgment reversed on the law and the facts, and a new trial ordered. In our opinion it was error to admit, over objection, testimony by appellant’s 15-year-old daughter, with whom he was accused of committing an act of sexual intercourse, that about three weeks thereafter she had made disclosure of the facts to a priest in confession. Such evidence is admissible in prosecutions for rape and similar…