People v. Hop Sing

The complainant was thirteen years old when the defendant in a laundry kept by him committed the crime of rape in the second degree by an act of sexual intercourse with her. With the complainant at the time Was another girl twelve and one-half years old, and with whom the defendant also had sexual intercourse on that occasion. The appellant claims that the testimony of the twelve and a half year old girl constituted the admission of evidence of another and distinct crime and was, therefore, incompetent. The testimony of the younger girl supported the testimony of the complainant that the…