Legal Opinion
People v. Mills
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided February 17, 1893PublishedCited by 23 opinions
Error to Washtenaw. (Kinne, J.) Bespondent was convicted under 3 How. Stat. § 9314a, of carnally knowing a girl of tbe statutory age, theretofore chaste, with her consent, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison for five years. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMcGrath, J.
Bespondent was convicted under Act No. 143, Laws of 1887, which is as follows:
“Any male person of the age of sixteen years or more who shall carnally know any girl, theretofore chaste, of the age of fourteen years, and not more than sixteen years' of age, with the consent of such girl, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the State. prison/5 etc.
*632The complaining witness, Bernice Bickle, was 15 years of age in January, 1892. She had lived in Sarnia until December 21, 1891. Her father and mother were members of a sect styling themselves “ Israelites,” and respondent…
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