State v. Rollins
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was convicted in tbe district court for Redwood county, Webber, J., of the crime of carnally knowing and abusing a female child under the age of sixteen years. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLovely, J.
Defendant was convicted under G. S. 1894, § 6524, of carnally knowing and abusing a female child under the age of sixteen years. A new trial was denied, from which this appeal is prosecuted.
It is urged for defendant that the statute under which he was convicted fails sufficiently to define a crime. It is conceded that it is a criminal offense to carnally abuse a female child under ten years, but for the reason solely that this age is fixed by common law, rather than by this statute; and that any greater age than the common-law age, adopted by a subsequent statute, is an effort to create a new…
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