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 statement of the law. (People v. Page, 162 N.Y. 272; People v. Downs. 236 N.Y. 306; People v. Croes, 285 N.Y. 279; People v. Adler<...
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