People v. Moritz

Plaintiffs in error, who are young men, were jointly indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Lawrence county of the crime of rape upon the person of Matilda Shoup, a young unmarried woman. She testified that upon a September night, in an unfrequented country road, in Lawrence county, both of plaintiffs in error, one immediately after the other, by force and against her will, had sexual intercourse with her, and that each one of them assisted in holding her while the other had carnal knowledge of her. Certain facts and circumstances appear in evidence from her testimony and from the…