People v. . O'Sullivan
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by the people from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Department of 13, November, 1886. The defendant, John E. O’Sullivan, was tried at the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Onondaga county, Hon. Geo. N. Kennedy, presiding, for the crime of rape, and was convicted and sentenced to eleven years imprisonment.
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Appeal by the people from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Department of 13, November, 1886. The defendant, John E. O’Sullivan, was tried at the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Onondaga county, Hon. Geo. N. Kennedy, presiding, for the crime of rape, and was convicted and sentenced to eleven years imprisonment. Upon appeal from this judgment the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Department reversed the judgment of conviction and ordered a new trial. . From this judgment of reversal the people appealed to the Court of Appeals. The judgment of the…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
The defendant was convicted, in the Onondaga Oyer and Terminer, of the .crime of rape committed upon Abbie O’Connor on the 6th day of May, 1884. He was a Roman Catholic priest in charge of a church at Camillus in Onondaga county. The complainant was a domestic, working for him in the parsonage which adjoined the church. She testified that she was at the time of the alleged crime about seventeen years old; but there was other evidence, apparently more rehable, that she was about twenty. Before she went to live with him she resided with her foster parents, who brought her up from infancy, and…
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