State v. Woolaver
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. M. G. McGregor, Judge.' The prosecuting witness, who was defendant’s stepdaughter, testified that defendant had had connection with her twice, the first time when she was between thirteen and fourteen years of age, the second time a year later; and that on the first occasion she resisted but defendant forced her.
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Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. M. G. McGregor, Judge.' The prosecuting witness, who was defendant’s stepdaughter, testified that defendant had had connection with her twice, the first time when she was between thirteen and fourteen years of age, the second time a year later; and that on the first occasion she resisted but defendant forced her. According to her statement, the act was committed the first time about daylight in the morning in defendant’s house, a house consisting of a single room fourteen feet square, in which were two beds, one occupied by defendant’s wife and two…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The defendant was indicted under section 1260, Revised Statutes, for defiling a female under the age of eighteen years, his step-daughter, entrusted to his care and protection. On the trial he was convicted and the only question necessary to be considered is whether the instruction which told the jury to find the defendant guilty, if he had carnal knowledge of the girl either with or without force, is, in the circumstances of this case, such error as should cause the reversal of the judgment. The instruction was doubtless erroneous. State v. Ellis, 74 Mo. 385. But it could not have operated…
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