Legal Opinion

State v. Waters

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 11, 1906PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from Gass District Court.— IIon. W. R. Green, Judge. Tiib defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of rape.

1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.

The accused was convicted of having had sexual intercourse with his cousin, Bernice Sewell, a girl but little over fourteen years of age, under a statute declaring it rape so to do with a female under the age of fifteen years. She testified that in the latter part of February, 1905, the accused, who was sleeping' in an adjoining room, came to her bed where the act occurred, and that this happened repeatedly thereafter, the last time in June following. All of this was explicitly denied by the accused.

*482That the prosecutrix had intercourse with some one is fully established by the evidence, and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. BakerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1898
  2. State v. NorrisSupreme Court of Iowa · 1904

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. State v. DudleySupreme Court of Iowa · 1910
  2. Ross v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1914
  3. State v. SmithSupreme Court of Iowa · 1922
  4. State v. LahmonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1940
  5. State v. LindsaySupreme Court of Iowa · 1913

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