State v. Kinney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for rape; brought to tlio Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Beardsley, J. Upon the trial of the case, after the person upon whom the alleged rape was committed had been sworn as a witness, and testified to the principal facts in the case, and after the counsel for the prisoner had cross-examined her and asked her many questions relative to the principal facts charged in the indictment, some of which tended…
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Indictment for rape; brought to tlio Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury, on the plea of not guilty, before Beardsley, J. Upon the trial of the case, after the person upon whom the alleged rape was committed had been sworn as a witness, and testified to the principal facts in the case, and after the counsel for the prisoner had cross-examined her and asked her many questions relative to the principal facts charged in the indictment, some of which tended to discredit her evidence, but before any attempt on his part to discredit her testimony otherwise than by such…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
We think the case of State v. De Wolf, 8 Conn., 93, decisive of the present question. In that case, after the woman upon whom the assault had been made had given her testimony in relation to the main fact charged, which was of an attempt to commit a rape, and had been cross-examined at length, the public prosecutor was permitted to prove by a witness, that she had told the witness, out of court and in the absence of the accused, the same story that she had told in court. This was allowed in order to show constancy in her accusation. Judge Daggett, in giving the opinion of the court in that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. De WolfSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1830
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