People v. Manowitz

Judgment of the County Court of Nassau county, convicting defendant of the crime of rape in the first degree, reversed on the law, indictment dismissed and bail exonerated. The testimony of Titseh and Adele Beuschel did not constitute corroboration of the complainant’s story respecting the claimed *810use of force or violence by the defendant in perpetrating an act of intercourse with her. The record is devoid of legal evidence of corroboration needful to sustain a conviction of the crime of rapé in the first degree. Young, Carswell and Tompkins, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., concurs for reversal…