People v. Yannucci

The defendants are of an unworthy type. But the law is to be applied alike to the worthy and the unworthy. There was not sufficient proof of force or fear of bodily harm to establish the crime charged. There was no corroboration, which is indispensable to sustain a conviction for rape. The complainant was of mature age. She was not an inexperienced person. She left a place of safety on the invitation of one of the defendants whose arm was in a sling. What then ensued need not be recounted in detail, but all of it, not merely part thereof, must be considered. *172On her own story, her subsequent…