State v. Pollard
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Livingston Circuit Court — Horn. J. W. Alexander, Judge. (1) What the policeman told Eva Enoch could not he introduced against defendant as evidence against him. State v. May, 142 Mo. 154; State v. Burlingame, 146 Mo. 207. (2) She was also improperly permitted to state that the prosecutrix told her defendant had forced her. (3) While it is true that defendant can he impeached as other witnesses, yet in this case we take exceptions to the mode.
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Appeal from Livingston Circuit Court — Horn. J. W. Alexander, Judge. (1) What the policeman told Eva Enoch could not he introduced against defendant as evidence against him. State v. May, 142 Mo. 154; State v. Burlingame, 146 Mo. 207. (2) She was also improperly permitted to state that the prosecutrix told her defendant had forced her. (3) While it is true that defendant can he impeached as other witnesses, yet in this case we take exceptions to the mode. The State confined his impeachment to the time of the trial on morality and chastity, when,- if he could have been impeached on these…
1Opinion of the CourtFox, J.
This cause was prosecuted on an amended information filed by John H. Taylor, prosecuting attorney of Livingston county, in the circuit court of that county, on the 23rd day of September, 1902. The information charges defendant, on or about the 10th day of August, 1901, with defiling, feloniously and unlawfully carnally knowing one Carrie Downing, a young girl of fourteen years of age, who had been by her parents entrusted to his care, custody, confidence and employment.
There is no complaint urged against the information, hence, there is no necessity of inserting it in this opinion.
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