State v. Amundsen

The defendant, Arthur Amundsen, was charged by information with the crime of indecent assault as defined by Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), § 2442 [P.P.C. § 118-195] in that he did take indecent liberties with a ten-year-old girl. A trial before a jury resulted in a verdict of guilty. A motion for a new trial was made by the defendant and was denied, and he was given a maximum sentence of twenty years confinement in the penitentiary as is required by statute. From the judgment and sentence pronounced against him upon the verdict the defendant has appealed.

Since there is no contention that there was…