Comstock v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an indictment for rape committed upon one Coral Comstock, daughter of the defendant. The trial below before Post, J., in the district court for York county, resulted in a verdict of guilty, and sentence of prisoner to imprisonment in penitentiary for life, to reverse which he prosecuted this writ of error. Affidavits for continuance were sufficient.
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This was an indictment for rape committed upon one Coral Comstock, daughter of the defendant. The trial below before Post, J., in the district court for York county, resulted in a verdict of guilty, and sentence of prisoner to imprisonment in penitentiary for life, to reverse which he prosecuted this writ of error. Affidavits for continuance were sufficient. Jameson v. Butler, 1 Neb., 118. Johnson v. Dinsmore, 11 Neb., 393. Williams v. The State, 6 Neb., 337. The evidence as to parentage was inadmissible.. 1 Greenleaf, see. 103. There must be both penetration and emission. Russell on Crimes,…
1Opinion of the Court
Lake, Ch. J.
A large number of errors are assigned, but we shall consider only those which are referred to by counsel for the prisoner in their brief.
The first of these is a refusal of the court to grant a continuance on account of absent witnesses. There was no error in the ruling of the court on this question. The affidavit on which the motion to continue was based was clearly insufficient, according to the most approved rule of criminal practice in such cases.
The affidavit was that of the prisoner himself. All but two of the witnesses desired were non-residents of the state, and their…
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