State v. Farrar
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
INDICTMENT, charging the respondent with the forcible seizure and abduction of G-elietta Farrar, from Dover, in this county, on the 8th day of October, 1859, and the forcible removal of said Gelietta from the State without her consent and against her will. Plea, not guilty.
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INDICTMENT, charging the respondent with the forcible seizure and abduction of G-elietta Farrar, from Dover, in this county, on the 8th day of October, 1859, and the forcible removal of said Gelietta from the State without her consent and against her will. Plea, not guilty. On trial it was proved that in 1853 the respondent was married to Angelia S. Huntress, of said Dover, by whom, in 1855, he had offspring, said Gelietta; that on the 19th of April, 1858, said Angelia petitioned this court for a divorce from him, on the ground of extreme cruelty and treatment injurious to health; asking also…
1Opinion of the CourtBellows, J.
The offence charged in the indictment was an offence at common law, and also by the law of New-Hampshire before the Revised Statutes. In State v. Rollins, 8 N. H. 550, it was held that an indictment at common law may be maintained in this State for an assault, for false imprisonment, and for kidnapping. And it was held that to constitute the offence of kidnapping a child under ten years of age, actual force and violence is not necessary, nor transportation to a foreign country.
But the statute under which the indictment in the case before us is framed, includes in the offence of kidnapping the…
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