Legal Opinion

State v. Farris

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided July 6, 1920PublishedCited by 20 opinions

Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — John W. Anderson, Judge. The defendant was indicted, tried to a jury, and convicted of the crime of sodomy, and appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.

i. sodomy: stituting. 1. The transaction and the evidence are so vile and nauseating that we shall refer to it as briefly as possible, and in such langnage as that a reading between the lines may be necessary at some points. The indictment follows:

*506“The grand jury of the county of Woodbury, in the name and by the authority of the state of Iowa accuse M. Farris of the crime of sodomy committed as follows: The said M. Farris on or about the 24th day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen, in the county of Woodbury and state of Iowa, did unlawfully, willfully…

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