Richie v. State

Prosecution for a rape. The charge is stated in the indictment as follows :

“ That Richard Richie, late of said county, on the 31st day of July, 1877, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully, in a rude and insolent manner, touch, strike and wound Martha F. Dean, a woman, and did then and there, her, the said Martha F. Dean, a woman, unlawfully, forcibly and against her will, feloniously ravish and carnally know.”

A motion to quash the indictment was overruled, and exception reserved. Plea, not guilty; trial by jury; verdict, guilty ;■ fine, two hundred dollars; motion…