People v. Haskall

Thompson, J.:

The defendant has been convicted of the crime of rape in the second degree, and has applied for a certificate of reasonable doubt upon the sole ground that there is a failure of corroborative evidence against him as required by section 2013 of the Penal Law. The stenographer’s minutes of all of the testimony claimed to be in support of the evidence of the prosecutrix has been submitted and carefully read.

The general rule is that the corroborating testimony should tend to show the material facts necessary to establish the commission of the crime and the identity of the person…