State v. Smith
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an information filed by the state’s attorney by request of the respondent, charging that the respondent assaulted one Isabel Shalon, with intent carnally to know and ravish her. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury, April term, 1869, Wilson, J., pre-' siding.
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This was an information filed by the state’s attorney by request of the respondent, charging that the respondent assaulted one Isabel Shalon, with intent carnally to know and ravish her. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury, April term, 1869, Wilson, J., pre-' siding. The State introduced testimony tending to prove that the respondent, at the time and place alleged in said information, did assault the said Isabel, with intent carnally to know and ravish her, and tending to show that the respondent did carnally know and ravish her, by force and against her will. To which testimony the respondent…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pierpoint, C. J.
In this case the respondent was informed against for an assault with intent to commit a rape. On trial the evidence showed that a rape was actually committed. The counsel for the respondent now insists that upon such proof the respondent should have been discharged upon this information.
In considering this question, we are relieved from all embarrassment by reason of the numerous decisions based upon, and growing out of, the principle that in prosecutions for a felony there can be no conviction of-a misdemeanor. In this case the offense…
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