State v. Bradford
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. D. M. Graham, Judge. Paul Bradford was acquitted of statutory rape, and the state appeals. The appellant was indicted at the May, 1921, term of the circuit court of Harrison county. He was charged with the violation of the age of consent law. (sections, 10,93, 1094 and 1095, Hemingway’s Code). To sustain the charge, the state had only one witness, the prosecutrix.
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Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. D. M. Graham, Judge. Paul Bradford was acquitted of statutory rape, and the state appeals. The appellant was indicted at the May, 1921, term of the circuit court of Harrison county. He was charged with the violation of the age of consent law. (sections, 10,93, 1094 and 1095, Hemingway’s Code). To sustain the charge, the state had only one witness, the prosecutrix. Her testimony was not corroborated; for this failure to corroborate the prosecuting witness,- the lower court sustained a motion to exclude the evidence of the state and for a…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
- The appellee, Paul Bradford, was indicted, tried, and acquitted in the circuit court of Harrison county of the charge that (quoting from the indictment) —
“On or about the 15th day of September, 1919, then and there being a male person older than Verna Vancourt, did unlawfully, willfully, and. feloniously have carnal knowledge of and carnally know, by having sexual intercourse with, the said Verna Vancourt, an unmarried female person of previous chaste character, younger than he, and over twelve years and under eighteen years of age.”
At the conclusion of the testimony for the state, on…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. BrooksMississippi Supreme Court · 1912
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- Hollins v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1921
- Gillis v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1929