State v. Townsend

The respondent was tried on two indictments, the one, charging him with the crime against nature under R. S. (1944), Chap. 121, Sec. 3, the other, charging him with a violation of R. S. (1944), Chap. 121, Sec. 6, commonly known as indecent liberties. By stipulation, both cases were tried together at the March Term, 1949, of the Superior Court of Oxford County held at Rumford and verdicts returned against the respondent in both cases. The two cases come forward on respondent’s single bill of exceptions, all allegations of which aver that the presiding justice erred in charging the jury in…