People v. Palmer

Hasbrouck, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the crime of rape in the second degree had in the County Court of Chenango county against the defendant.

The facts having evidence tending to support them are that the defendant during the school year of 1919-20 was employed as a teacher of a district school in the town of Lincklaen in said county.

In the winter of that year defendant boarded with the parents of the prosecutrix, Margaret Potter. She was then fourteen years of age and was a pupil in the school where defendant taught. One day in November after school he conferred…