State v. Harmon

Pursuant to indictment by the Grand Jury of Wayne County, Ohio, Chester Harmon was tried on five counts of sodomy. Each count related to an offense or offenses with a different boy.

The charges were that he “did unlawfully have carnal copulation against nature” with the named boys, “in an opening of the body, other than the sexual parts.”

Trial was had to the court, a jury having been formally waived by the accused in compliance with the statute.

In consideration of the evidence, the court found the defendant guilty of three of the five counts, and not guilty of the remaining two.

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