State v. Grothmann

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hehbr, J.

Defendant was convicted on two indictments, numbered 47 and 48, charging that he induced a female child of 12 years of age in the first case, and another such child of 9 years in the second, “to submit to the doing” of a specified “act which would tend to debauch * * * and impair the morals” of the child, contrary to N. J. S. 2A :96-3, for which R. S. 2:117-6.1 was later substituted without objection. The indictments were tried together. Each included a count for assault and battery on the particular child; but that count was dismissed by the…