People v. . Flaherty
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered April 6, 1898, affirming a judgment of the Court of Sessions of Livingston county convicting the defendant of the crime of sexual intercourse with a female not his wife under the age of sixteen years. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, Ch. J.
By the judgment under review, Charles Flaherty was convicted of the crime of an act of sexual intercourse with a female not his wife while under the age of sixteen years. His contention in this court is that errors, greatly prejudicial to him, were committed in the progress of the trial, and the result of our investigation of the record has induced the conclusion that his contention is well founded. Some of the errors we shall now point out.
In the first place, the safeguards that the statute provides for The purpose of assuring a defendant in a criminal trial a fair and…
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