Legal Opinion

State v. Osborne

Oregon Supreme Court

Decided July 20, 1909PublishedCited by 49 opinions

The defendant, Heck Osborne, was indicted, tried and convicted of an assault with intent to commit rape. From a judgment sentencing him to the penitentiary for three years, he appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice King

Heck Osborne and Sam Yarbrough were jointly indicted on a charge of assault with the intent to commit rape upon Etta Van Blearicom, a woman over sixteen years old. Yarbrough pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to the penitentiary. At -a subsequent term of court Osborne was tried, convicted, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, from which he appeals.

1. After the case was called for trial, and before the taking of any testimony, the district attorney requested that the public be excluded, stating: “If the court please, before beginning the taking of testimony in this case, I *291would like to…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Hopt v. People of Territory of UtahSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  2. In Re SawyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  3. Spies v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  4. Crain v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  5. Brown v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1899

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3Cited by49 opinions

  1. In Re OliverSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  2. People v. JelkeNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
  3. Batchelor v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1920
  4. State v. CollinsWashington Supreme Court · 1957
  5. Commonwealth v. BlondinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949

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