People v. Freeman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Walter K. Freeman, from a judgment rendered against him in the Criminal Term of the Supreme Court on the 3d day of February,. 1897, convicting him of the crime of rape in the second degree and denying his motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial.
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Appeal by the defendant, Walter K. Freeman, from a judgment rendered against him in the Criminal Term of the Supreme Court on the 3d day of February,. 1897, convicting him of the crime of rape in the second degree and denying his motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial. The defendant was charged, under the third count of the indict-1 ment, upon which' he was so convicted, with the perpetration of an act of sexual intercourse with one Sarah E. Work (a female not his wife, under the age of sixteen years), on the 13th day of January, 1894, at the city and county of New York. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, J.:
1. The first question presented is whether evidence that the defendant and Sarah E. Work lived together in a flat at No. 230 West Thirty-sixth street, in this city, from about the 9th day of May to the 11th day of June, 1894, was properly admitted in support of the charge of criminal intercourse upon the thirteenth day of the preceding January. It is thus necessary to consider how far, in an indictment for such a specific offense, subsequent acts of a similar character between the same parties are admissible in'support of the principal charge. The question does not seem to have…
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