State v. Hansen
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, First District; Hon. W. T7. Maughan, Judge. Paul Hansen was convicted of adultery and be appeals. STATEMENT OE FACTS. It is charged in the information that the defendant, a married man, on the 21st day of May, 1910, at Cache County, Utah, committed the crime of adultery by then and there having carnal knowledge of the body of a certain unmarried woman therein named, hereinafter referred to as the prose-cutrix.
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Appeal from District Court, First District; Hon. W. T7. Maughan, Judge. Paul Hansen was convicted of adultery and be appeals. STATEMENT OE FACTS. It is charged in the information that the defendant, a married man, on the 21st day of May, 1910, at Cache County, Utah, committed the crime of adultery by then and there having carnal knowledge of the body of a certain unmarried woman therein named, hereinafter referred to as the prose-cutrix. A trial was had which resulted in a verdict of guilty, and the defendant was thereafter sentenced to serve a term of two years in tbe state prison. To…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCARTY, J.
(after stating the facts as above).
One of the grounds relied on for a new trial is that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict. The contention made is, first, that the testimony of'the accomplice (prose-cutrix) was so self-contradictory, and that she was otherwise so thoroughly impeached that the evidence was rendered unworthy of belief; and, second, that her testimony was not sufficiently corroborated to authorize a conviction.
It must be conceded that the testimony of the prosecutrix, when considered in all its phases, including the manner in which it was elicited by the…
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