Palumbo v. State

The victim testified that Appellant removed his clothes, her clothes and then held her by the shoulders while he pushed her up and down, repeatedly causing his penis to come in contact with her “vagina,” until he apparently ejaculated (the young victim testified that she felt something slimy on her vagina). Although she felt his penis hit her “vagina” repeatedly, she admitted that it did not go “inside her vagina.”

Although a dictionary might be a reliable resource to determine the meaning of a word used in a statute, just like any other tool of statutory construction, its definition is by no…