People v. Dickerson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Malcolm Dickerson, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the. city and county of New York in favor of the plaintiff, rendered on the 31st day of May, 1899, convicting him of the crime of rape in the second degree, under subdivision 5 of section 278 of the Penal Code.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The defendant was convicted of the crime of rape in the second degree, under subdivision 5 of section'278 of the Penal Code, and sentenced to be imprisoned in “ the State Prison at hard labor for the term of seven years and six months,” and from this judgment he has appealed.
At the trial the only question which was seriously contested was whether the complaining witness,. Norah Saville, at the time when the defendant was alleged to have committed the, crime of which he was convicted, was under the age of eighteen years. If the testimony introduced justified the jury in finding…
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