State v. Burns
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information charging the defendant and an unknown man with carnally knowing and abusing a female under the age of sixteen years, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, Jverdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The appellant was convicted upon an information filed by the State’s Attorney charging that she, and a man to the attorney unknown, did unlawfully carnally know and abuse May Burns, a female under the'age of sixteen years.
Upon the trial the State claimed to have proved that the accused agreed with a man, whose name and person were unknown either to the- State Attorney or to the said May Burns, to procure for him a young girl for the satisfaction of his sexual lust; that through the agency of two persons in New Haven she procured to be brought to a house of ill-fame kept by her in New London…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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3Cited by22 opinions
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