State v. Coss
Oregon Supreme Court
From Jackson: Hiero K. Hanna, Judge. The defendant, H. M. Coss, was tried and convicted of the crime of statutory rape, and from the sentence following such conviction, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
The defendant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape on Carrie Staggs, a girl about 14 years of age. The indictment charges the crime to have been committed *464on the 3d of June, 1908. The defendant denied his guilt and claimed that the charge was concocted by a divorced wife and a brother with whom he had had litigation. The evidence tended to show: That Miss Staggs was employed as a domestic in defendant’s family for two or three months in the spring of 1908; that, at the time of her employment, defendant brought her from her home to his residence in a buggy, and while on the way-tried…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- People v. WilliamsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1901
- State v. HilbergUtah Supreme Court · 1900
- State v. ClementsOregon Supreme Court · 1887
- People v. . FlahertyNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- State v. KingWashington Supreme Court · 1908
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