State v. Baldanzo

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

The case comes from the Supreme Court where, on writ of error to the Passaic Court of Quarter Sessions, the proceedings in the trial court were reviewed and affirmed. The parties will be referred to herein as the state (defendant in error) and the defendant (plaintiff in error).

The defendant was found guilty under an indictment charging him with assault and carnal abuse upon one Anna Lacota, a female child of the age of fourteen years, on February 16th, 1927. The evidence of the defendant’s guilt came chiefly and almost exclusively from the…