State v. Brady

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

Brady was indicted and convicted for carnal abuse of one Ida Williams, a girl under the age of sixteen years. The principal ground alleged for reversal is that there was error in the ruling of the trial judge in excluding a conversation, called for on the cross-examination of Benjamin Murphy, the chief of police of Jersey City, which he had with the Williams girl, and which, presumably, if it had been permitted to have been given, would have been contradictory of the testimony of the girl given upon the witness-stand. The…