People v. De Nigris
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Joseph De Nigris, from a judgment of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the county of New York, rendered against him on the 3d day of September, 1912, convicting him of the crime of rape in the second degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The evidence establishes quite satisfactorily that the defendant took the complaining witness, a young girl, to what is described as a furnished-room house and there cohabited with her on two or three successive nights.
Apart from the defendant’s denials, which are quite unconvincing and failed to impress the jury, there are but two questions involved, first, as to complainant’s age, and second, as to whether or not there was sufficient corroboration. Upon the first point the evidence was sufficient. Not only did the girl herself testify to the date of her birth, but she was corrobo*799ra…
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