People v. Mahoney

Appeals by defendants from judgments of the County Court, Queens County, convicting them of rape in the first degree, and from orders denying motions to set aside the verdict, motions to grant a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence, and motions in arrest of judgment. Judgments reversed on the law and a new trial ordered. The Trial Judge charged the jury that it was not necessary that testimony in support of the complainant’s testimony need go to every essential element of the crime: that it would be sufficient if it went to one essential element only. That was an erroneous…