Walter v. People
New York Supreme Court
EIT of error to the court of sessions of Kings county. The plaintiff in error was indicted, under section 22, art. 2, chap. 1, part 4, of the Eevised Statutes, for a rape upon Lucy S. Jones, and was tried and convicted of that crime, in that court, in December, 1865, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for ten years.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Gilbert, J.
The plaintiff in error has been convicted of the crime of rape, and is now imprisoned in the state prison under a sentence upon .that conviction. The case is before us on a bill of exceptions.
The plaintiff in error is a physician having a wife and four children. The prosecutrix is a single woman thirty years of age. The commission of the offense rests upon her testimony, alone. Her evidence, briefly stated, is, that the plaintiff in error, while attending her in a professional capacity, told her that she had a disease of the womb, and that a physical examination was…
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