Legal Opinion
State v. Poe
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided March 20, 1979No. 7814SC550PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEBB, Judge.
G.S. 14-177 provides:
If any person shall commit the crime against nature, with mankind or beast, he shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court.
The defendant advances three arguments as to why the trial in the superior court should be reversed. These are: (1) the crime against nature does not include a consensual fellatio between an adult man and adult woman, (2) defendant may not be prosecuted for a consensual fellatio with an adult female because to do so violates his constitutionally guaranteed right of privacy, and (3) the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Griswold v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Eisenstadt v. BairdSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Charles O. Cotner v. Jerome Henry, as Superintendent, Indiana State Reformatory, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1968
- State v. LairSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1973
- Aldo Mario Lovisi and Margaret Lovisi v. A. E. Slayton, Jr., Superintendent, Leake Parrish, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Schochet v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1990
- Neville v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1981
- State v. EvansCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1985
- State v. SingletonCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1987
- State v. WhiteleyCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2005
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