People v. Mitchell

The defendant was convicted of rape, for having sexual intercourse with a female child under the age of sixteen years not his wife,, and has appealed from the final judgment of conviction, from the order denying a new trial, and from the order denying the motion in arrest of judgment.

For the purpose of showing the character of the testimony, and that because of its character a liberal cross-examination of the prosecutrix should have been permitted, a short recital of the evidence for the people is necessary. The prosecutrix testified that she with her girl friend, Bernice B. (the name of this…