Efsiever v. People

Mr. Justice Francis E. Bouck,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant was convicted of statutory rape.

The testimony of both the defendant and the prosecutrix shows beyond all question that he had sexual intercourse with her on the night of September 15, 1936, a few hours after he had met her for the first time. It occurred in his own room at the hotel where he was living and of which he was manager. The prosecutrix testified on the witness stand that she was born on May 15, 1920, though she had told the defendant she was twenty-two years old. He himself testified that later “he became…