The People v. . Gay
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the third district, where a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Columbia county, in a criminal case, had been affirmed on writ of error.
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Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the third district, where a judgment of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Columbia county, in a criminal case, had been affirmed on writ of error. (Reported below, 1 Park. 308.) The appellant, Newton Gay, in October 1851, was convicted of the crime of rape upon the person of one Sarah Pilling, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Columbia county, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison, at Sing Sing, for the term of ten years. On the trial, before Parker, J., one John W. Wood was sworn as a witness for the prisoner, and gave…
1Opinion of the Court
* Jewett, J.
There is but a made in this case for determination; and that *- is, whether the decision of the court below, excluding the evidence offered by the defendant of the genera] good character of the witness, Wood, for truth and veracity, was correct. This witness had been called by the defendant and examined, and had given material evidence in the cause; he was then cross-examined in behalf of the people, and testified, that he had been prosecuted before a magistrate upon a charge of perjury, and committed for trial, upon the complaint of L. & G. Raymond; that the perjury alleged to…
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