State v. Duffy

I dissent from two conclusions contained in the majority opinion. First, that the word, “debauch,” as used in section 1 of chapter 1, Session Laws 1921, “is practically synonymous with the phrase, ‘carnal knowledge.’ ” The statute under consideration, so far as applicable here, provides in substance that every person who takes any female under 18 years of age away from her father, mother, or other person having legal charge o-f her person “for the purpose of debauchery, illicit relationship, concubinage, prostitution, or other immoral purpose, is punishable by imprisonment in the state…