State v. Ewing

1. The defendant contends that the indictment charges three distinct crimes: sodomy, sex perversion, and osculatory relationship. The assignment is without merit. The preliminary allegation in the indictment that on the 15th day of September the defendant did "have a certain venereal affair with a human being" et cetera, does not sufficiently allege any crime listed in our statutes. The only specific charge is to be found in that portion of the indictment which alleges that the defendant did "then and there" (referring to the time and place of the alleged "venereal affair") "sustain…