People v. Gibson

Defendant has been found guilty on two counts of an indictment charging him with the crime of incest (Penal Law, § 1110) in that he engaged in sexual intercourse with his daughter, then fifteen years of age, in the county of Ontario, New York, on July 1 and July 15, 1947. The evidence against defendant consisted solely of the testimony of the daughter. We need not detail that testimony, for we are agreed that, despite certain self-contradictions therein, the jury could properly find that defendant had committed the crime of incest in this State on the dates noted — unless, as it is urged, the…