State v. Framness
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was tried and convicted in the district court for Becker county, before Mills, J., on an indictment for seduction under promise of marriage, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $700, and, in default of payment, to be imprisoned at hard labor in the state prison until the fine should be paid, not exceeding 12 months. He appeals from the judgment and from an order refusing a new trial.
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Defendant was tried and convicted in the district court for Becker county, before Mills, J., on an indictment for seduction under promise of marriage, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $700, and, in default of payment, to be imprisoned at hard labor in the state prison until the fine should be paid, not exceeding 12 months. He appeals from the judgment and from an order refusing a new trial. The indictment, after charging defendant with seduction of the.woman named therein, under promise of marriage, describes her character as follows: “She the said” (naming her) “being, at the time of said…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
1. The error first assigned is the insufficiency of the indictment in failing to state with sufficient precision that the prosecutrix was at the time of the alleged seduction “a female of previous chaste character.” There is nothing in the point. The statement is evidently intended to be made precise with reference to an objection of this kind. The indictment conforms to the statute, and the intent is clearly to charge that the offence was committed with “an unmarried female of previous chaste character.”
2. A slight error in entitling the case by the jury in the verdict returned in writing…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- State v. PetersonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Jenness v. School District No. 31, Washington Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1867
- Mims v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
- State v. ConwaySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1877
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