Fowler v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
in ERROR. THIS was an information, brought before the County Court, upon the statute against lascivious carriage and be-haviour. The defendant pleaded not guilty ; and the jury found a verdict against him. On the trial, the attorney for the state, introduced Nancy Parker, as a witness, to prove the facts charged in the information.
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in ERROR. THIS was an information, brought before the County Court, upon the statute against lascivious carriage and be-haviour. The defendant pleaded not guilty ; and the jury found a verdict against him. On the trial, the attorney for the state, introduced Nancy Parker, as a witness, to prove the facts charged in the information. Her testimony was as follows: “ That Fowler, on the day mentioned in the information, was with her, in the room in her father’s house, no one being present, excepting her little sister, of the age of twelve years ; that Fowler desired that her sister might be sent…
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The vu'erd presents three exceptions to the judgment of the County Court, appearing from a bill of exceptions there filed, i’h- that the court admitted Nancy For her, the only person present at the time the acts complain fd of were committed, to testify to the same ; and did refus-■ to admit in evidence, for the purpose of rebutting her- testimony, a complaint to the grand-jurors of the town, for the same transaction, drawn up by an attorney, and signed by her ; and that said court charged the jury, that wanton and lascivious acts of one person only, practised to another peí-son…
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