State v. Adams
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. — Ho». Wm. L. Jarrott, Judge. Tie gravamen of the offense is the purpose or intent with which the female is taken away from her parent. Therefore before the defendant could be convicted under the information, his intention when leaving Cass county must have been to make Della Oram his concubine.
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Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. — Ho». Wm. L. Jarrott, Judge. Tie gravamen of the offense is the purpose or intent with which the female is taken away from her parent. Therefore before the defendant could be convicted under the information, his intention when leaving Cass county must have been to make Della Oram his concubine. State v. Rorebeck, 158 Mo. 130; State v. Round, 82 Mo. 679; State v. Gibson, 111 Mo. 92; State v. Johnson, 115 Mo. 410; State v. Wilkerson, 121 Mo. 485; State v.'Bapst, 131 Mo. 328; State v. Richardson, 117 Mo. 586; Bishop on Stat. Crimes (1 Ed.), 420, sec. 641; State…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
— Defendant was convicted in the circuit court of Cass county and his punishment fixed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, under an information filed by the prosecuting attorney of said county charging him with having, at said county, on the 8th day of May, 1903, taken away from her father one Della May Oram, a female under the age of eighteen years, to wit, of the age of fifteen years, for the purpose of concubinage, by having illicit intercourse with her. -
After unsuccessful motions for new trial - and in arrest, defendant brings the case to this court by appeal for review.
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