State v. Round
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Mercer Circuit Court. — Hon. G. D. Burgess, Judge. It is contended that the taking was in Iowa and not in Mercer county, Missouri, and that the evidence, therefore, is not sufficient to convict, the court having no jurisdiction of the offense.
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Appeal from Mercer Circuit Court. — Hon. G. D. Burgess, Judge. It is contended that the taking was in Iowa and not in Mercer county, Missouri, and that the evidence, therefore, is not sufficient to convict, the court having no jurisdiction of the offense. Under the English statute against taking women forcibly, and against their will, for purposes of marriage or defilement when taken in one county and carried into another, if the force was continued in the last county, the abductor could be indicted therein. 1 Wharton Crim. Law, (8 Ed.) § 588; 1 East P. C., 453. The gist of the offense under…
1Opinion of the CourtHenry, J.
Defendant was indicted for taking one Sarah A. Fuqua, a female under eighteen years of age, from the charge of her father for the purpose of prostitution. *681.■Ilis plea was not guilty. On a trial the jury found him guilty and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three years. Erom the judgment •of the court on the verdict he has appealed.
The evidence was to the effect that the girl was under •eighteen years of age; had gone with her father’s consent •to visit an uncle in Iowa, about thirty miles distant from her home in Mercer county. That after she had been…
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