State v. Weitzel

A grand jury jointly indicted Ben Melchor, Conrad Trondt, George Weitzel and John Sauer of the crime of having, on August 4, 1935, attempted to rape a young lady 19 years of age who, for the purposes of the record, will be known as Miss X. On the same day the grand jury also jointly indicted the above named defendants with the crime of sodomy in that they “compelled the said ‘Miss X’ to sustain osculatory relations with the private parts of the said defendants, and each of them”. The crime of sodomy was alleged to have been committed at the same time and place as that of the crime of…