State v. Speer

The defendant was charged by information with the crime of abduction, based on Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2439 (1) [P.P.C. § 118-189], as follows:

“He, the said Claude Speer, in the County of Skagit, State of Washington, on or about the 30th day of March 1949, without the consent of the father or mother, guardian or other person having legal charge of Margaret , . . willfully, unlawfully and feloniously did take the said Margaret . . ., then and there a female person under the age of eighteen, to-wit: of the age of fourteen years, for the purpose of marriage, contrary to the form of the statute in…