State v. Cooper

WOLFE, Justice.

Appeal by the defendant from a verdict and judgment of guilty of the crime of indecent assault. The offense is defined by Section 103-7-9, U. C. A. 1943, as follows:

“Every person who shall assault a child, whether male or female, under the age of fourteen years, and shall take indecent liberties with or on the person of such child, without committing, intending or attempting to commit the crime of rape, upon such child, with or without the child’s consent, is guilty of a felony.”

The purported offense was charged in the information to have taken place on or about April 18, 1947,…