Legal Opinion
Jenness v. State
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 15, 1949PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFellows, J.
This case comes to the Law Court on exceptions by the plaintiff in error to a ruling of a justice of the Superior Court in the County of Knox dismissing his writ of error.
The plaintiff was indicted at the October Term, 1945 in the Superior Court for Kennebec County. The indictment charged the crime of sodomy, and the indictment further alleged that the respondent (now plaintiff in error) had been previously convicted in 1939 of the crime of indecent liberties and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the State Prison of the State of Maine. Counsel was appointed by the court to defend the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Kercheval v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Graham v. West VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- McDonald v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Moore v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- People v. GowaskyNew York Court of Appeals · 1927
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Huffman v. AlexanderOregon Supreme Court · 1952
- Witte v. Dowd, WardenIndiana Supreme Court · 1951
- Dwyer v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1956
- Morgan v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1972
- Mundy Ex Rel. Pamela v. SimmonsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1980
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