State v. King
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Ón exceptions. The respondent was convicted on an indictment for an attempt to commit a criminal assault upon a girl nine years of age. During the trial exceptions were taken to the admission of testimony by the mother of the child giving the details of a statement made to her by the child about a week after the last assault. A general motion for a new trial was also filed. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWilson, J.
The respondent was tried and convicted on an indictment for attempt to commit a criminal assault upon a girl nine years of age. The case is before this court on appeal from the denial by the presiding Justice at nisi prius of a motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the law and the evidence, it being contended by respondent’s counsel that the evidence did not disclose any attempt to ravish the child, and also upon exceptions to the admission of testimony by the mother of the child in the course of the State’s direct evidence giving the details of a statement made to…
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