State v. Kozlickie
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. G. C. Hitchcock, Judge. (1) The court erred in refusing to permit defendant to prove acts of unchasity of the prosecutrix prior to the commission of the alleged offense; and erred in confining defendant to proof of her general reputation.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. G. C. Hitchcock, Judge. (1) The court erred in refusing to permit defendant to prove acts of unchasity of the prosecutrix prior to the commission of the alleged offense; and erred in confining defendant to proof of her general reputation. State v. Patterson, 88 Mo. 88; State v. Wheeler, 94 Mo. 252; State v. Blize, 111 Mo. 471; State v. Sharp, 132 Mo. 172. Defendant was not confined to the general reputation of the prosecutrix for unchasity. Whether she was of previous chaste character was a vital question in the case. It was necessary for the…
1Opinion of the Court
ROY, C.
— The defendant was charged with- having carnal knowledge of Mamie Wesolowski, an unmarried female over fourteen and under eighteen years of age, on April 19, 1910. He was convicted and sentenced to three'months in jail and a fine of $300, and has appealed.
The evidence showed that defendant was twenty-four years old and single, also very deaf. He was employed by his father in a bakery in St. Louis.' The Kozlickie family lived upstairs over the bakery. Prosecutrix was employed in the bakery from the latter part of December, 1909, until July 3, 1910.. She arose about five- o’clock every…
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