State v. Milne

This is an indictment wherein it is charged that the defendant received into his room in a dwelling house in the town of Westerly a person “for the purpose of committing an indecent act * * After a trial to a jury in the superior court the defendant was found guilty. Thereafter his motion for a new trial was denied by the trial justice, who then sentenced the defendant to a term of one year. The defendant has prosecuted a bill of exceptions to this court.

It appears from the record that on April 7, 1960 defendant pleaded not guilty to the indictment and that on May 12, 1960 a justice of the…