PEOPLE v. DOYLE


304 N.Y. 120 (1952)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. William R. Patrick Doyle, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 23, 1952


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Fontana and Vincent De Paul Starace for appellant.

Abraham Isseks, District Attorney (Angelo J. Ingrassia and Paul F. Murphy of counsel), for respondent.

LEWIS, DYE, FULD and FROESSEL, JJ., concur with CONWAY, J.; DESMOND, J., dissents in opinion in which LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., concurs.


CONWAY, J.

The defendant is forty-nine years of age and has taught in schools for boys for twenty-five years. He was convicted of the crime of sodomy. There was no proof of the commission of the crime except as it came from the words of the complainant. The jury was charged by the County Judge that if it found that the complainant was an accomplice, it must find corroboration before it could convict him. That...

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