Schnicker v. . People of State of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, to review judgment entered upon an order made at the May term, 1881, affirming a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the city and county of ¡New York, convicting the plaintiff in error on an indictment under 2 E. S. 664, § 25. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Ch. J.
The evidence tended to prove that the prosecutrix went to the house of the prisoner in the city of ¡New York, kept as a house of prostitution, not knowing its character, with a view to being employed there in domestic service, and that the prisoner detained her there against her will by exciting her fears that if she left she would be arrested, and by keeping the outer door locked so as to make it difficult for her to leave the house. The evidence also* tends to prove that the prisoner, soon after the prosecutrix came to the house, commenced to solicit her to submit to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Beyer v. . People of the State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
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- State v. CorriganSupreme Court of Missouri · 1914
- People v. Lo VerdeNew York Court of Appeals · 1959
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