State v. Langelier

Indictment for sodomy. Defendant demurred specially on the ground that the indictment did not allege an assault upon the person with whom the offense was committed. Another ground for demurrer was alleged but not pressed, the defense conceding that it was without merit.

The late case of State v. Cyr, 135 Me., 513, 198 A., 743, points out that,

“By the weight of recent authority apparently supported by better reasoning, sodomy as used in connection with statutes prohibiting the crime against nature is interpreted in its broad sense and held to include all acts of unnatural carnal copulation with…