Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Albert W. Andrus, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1976-02-26
Citations: 38 N.Y.2d 925
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Albert W. Andrus, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 38
Pages: 925–926

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Albert W. Andrus, Appellant.
Argued January 12, 1976;
decided February 26, 1976
Terence P. O’Leary for appellant.
Malcolm C. Hughes, District Attorney (Robert J. Ayling of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Memorandum. The order should be affirmed.
Of the three elements required to be corroborated under the rigid requirements of the rape statute (former Penal Law, § 130.15), which prevailed at the time the defendant was convicted (see People v Linzy, 31 NY2d 99, 100-101), two of them, penetration and identity, were conceded. The third, "force or lack of consent" (at p 101) was supported by a legally competent, though equivocal, admission sufficient to create a question of fact (United States v Picarelli, 148 F2d 997, 998).
Chief Judge Breitel and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Cooke concur.
Order affirmed in memorandum.