People v. Crotty
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of oyer and terminer, Oswego county. An indictment against Alfred M. Crotty charged in three counts (1) that ■defendant, under promise of marriage, seduced a certain woman at Water-town, in Jefferson county; (2) that at Oswego, in Oswego county, defendant promised to marry said woman, and that, under such promise of marriage, defendant had intercourse with her, and seduced her, at Watertown; and (3) that defendant enticed and inveigled said woman to go with…
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Appeal from court of oyer and terminer, Oswego county. An indictment against Alfred M. Crotty charged in three counts (1) that ■defendant, under promise of marriage, seduced a certain woman at Water-town, in Jefferson county; (2) that at Oswego, in Oswego county, defendant promised to marry said woman, and that, under such promise of marriage, defendant had intercourse with her, and seduced her, at Watertown; and (3) that defendant enticed and inveigled said woman to go with him from Oswego to Watertown for the purpose of prostitution and sexual intercourse. The indictment was demurred to on…
1Opinion of the CourtHardin, P. J.
1. Upon an inspection of the indictment, we are of the opinion that the grand jury of Oswego county had jurisdiction to find the indictment in question. By section 134 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, it. is provided as follows: “When a crime is committed partly in one county and partly in another, or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more counties, the jurisdiction is in either county.” People v. Dimick, 41 Hun, 633.
2. Section 278 of the Code of Criminal Procedure lays down a rule that “the indictment must charge but…
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