17 Abb. Pr. 345
Decided March 15, 1864
New York Supreme Court · decided 1864-03-15
The prisoner, Jacques Monnais, was convicted, in September, 1863, of a rape upon the person of one Margaret Lyons. The prisoner was indicted, together with one Miner, in favor ot whom, before the trial, a nolle proseguí was entered.
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Decided 1864-03-15
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¶1I dissent from the conclusion at which Judge Leonard has arrived. The last request to charge is so obscure, that I do not know what the prisoner’s counsel meant by it. I do not know what he meant by the words, “ independent of any complicity between that Brown and the defendant which was drawn into the case.”
¶2New trial granted.