People v. McKeon
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of sessions, Cayuga county. Thomas McKeon was convicted of rape, and appeals from an order denying a motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.
The defendant was convicted mainly, as was natural, on the testimony of the woman who was alleged to have been the subject of the crime. The supporting testimony was slight, but, we think, sufficient to warrant its submission to the jury. It consisted, for the main part, of testimony by other witnesses that the defendant was seen going to and away from the house of the complainant, where she was alone, at about the time when, as she testifies, the crime was committed, and, by one witness, of immediate complaint on the part of the complainant, accompanied by an appearance of tears and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Coleman v. . People of the State of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1874
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