State v. Pratt

In an indictment in proper form the State alleged that the respondent “did then and there commit the crime against nature with mankind, to wit, did feloniously cause and entice a certain female, to wit, one (naming her) to perform the act of manual manipulation upon the sexual parts of him, the said Warren Pratt, against the order of nature,” etc. Respondent seasonably demurred. The presiding justice overruled the demurrer, expressly citing in support of that action State v. Townsend, 145 Me. 384. Respondent’s exceptions test that action.

The indictment does not set forth the age of the…