State v. Schell

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the circuit court, based upon a verdict, which found the defendant guilty of the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a minor (ORS 167.210). The indictment named as the victim of the crime the defendant’s daughter, who was 13 years of age at the time of the trial, and charged that the defendant did “lewdly and lasciviously handle and manipulate the private parts” of the girl.

Evidence presented by the state showed that the defendant on the day charged in the indictment, August 28, 1959, committed acts with his daughter as specified…