Gifford v. People

Eli Gifford was indicted for the crime of rape upon the person of his daughter, eleven years old, and was convicted by a jury, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of twenty-five years. The case is most revolting in its details, and if the defendant is guilty the punishment inflicted is richly merited.

As, in the view we take, the case must be again submitted to a jury, we refrain from a discussion of the evidence, further than to say that the case made by the People depends almost entirely upon the testimony of the child, which is flatly and circumstantially…