People v. Coe

The defendant-petitioner was indicted by the Grand Jury of Oneida County on May 11, 1948 in four separate indictments of six separate felonies:

Indictment No. 6,682: kidnapping (1 count); indictment No. 6,683: burglary, third degree and grand larceny, first degree; indictment No. 6,685: grand larceny, second degree; and indictment No. 6,686: sodomy (2 counts).

A codefendant was named in the kidnapping, larceny and burglary indictments and was separately indicted for rape and sodomy. The codefendant is not before the court on this application. The alleged victims were two young children, aged…