In the trial of cases in which the defendant is charged with sex crimes such as abuse of a female child, rape, or indecent assault, it is not the law that corroboration is essential to proof of guilt, although in the absence of corroboration the court should adopt a cautious approach and weigh the credibility of the complainant with care, particularly if there are improbabilities suggested by her story or there is substantial controverting evidence. In the present case, in which the defendants were

From an examination of the finding held that the subordinate facts would not support a conclusion that the defendant received stolen typewriter knowing it to have been stolen, that the court did not in fact so conclude and that the conviction of the crime of receiving and concealing stolen goods was unwarranted. When the case was fully tried and nothing indicates that on a new trial any different factual situation would be proved, the proper judgment of this court is that the defendant be discharged

Although the testimony of the complainant, a sixteen-year-old girl, upon which the state mainly relied, contained inconsistencies and suggested circumstances which the court might have regarded as weakening it, upon the whole evidence the trial court could properly find that the acts which were the basis for the charges of indecent assault were proved beyond a reasonable doubt. There is no essential contradiction in terms between the offense of indecent assault and the provision in the statute that