State v. Honey
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Indictment for assault with intent to commit rape upon a girl seventeen years old in her dwelling in the town of Dover, at about eleven o’clock in the forenoon, of January 30,1911. The prosecuting witness swore that the prisoner came to the house, entered the front door and asked where her father was. She told him he was away from home at work, and closed the door.
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Indictment for assault with intent to commit rape upon a girl seventeen years old in her dwelling in the town of Dover, at about eleven o’clock in the forenoon, of January 30,1911. The prosecuting witness swore that the prisoner came to the house, entered the front door and asked where her father was. She told him he was away from home at work, and closed the door. In a few minutes the prisoner entered the house, came to the kitchen where she was alone, and asked her if she did not want to make a dollar. She said, “No,” she had dollars of her own. He then seized her by the shoulder and she…
1Opinion of the CourtPennewill, C. J.
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury: — The prisoner at the bar, Walter Honey, is charged in this indictment with having committed, on the thirtieth day of January of the present year, an assault upon the prosecuting witness, Minnie Coward, with the intent her the said Minnie Coward to ravish and carnally know.
The indictment is based upon a statute of this state, which provides: “That if any person shall, with violence, assault any female, with intent to commit rape, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony,” etc.
[1] The charge embraces, therefore, as you observe, not only an assault,…
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