State v. Gibson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Harrison Circuit Court. — Hon. C. H. S. Goodman, Judge. (1) The court should.have sustained the demurrer to the evidence, there being no evidence of conspiracy, and the witness, Ada E. Dyche, testifying that she requested the appellant to take her away, and that he never at any time solicited her to leave her father’s home; he was guilty of no crime in taking her, and the mere act of illicit intercourse on the road that night cannot make that a crime which would…
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Appeal from Harrison Circuit Court. — Hon. C. H. S. Goodman, Judge. (1) The court should.have sustained the demurrer to the evidence, there being no evidence of conspiracy, and the witness, Ada E. Dyche, testifying that she requested the appellant to take her away, and that he never at any time solicited her to leave her father’s home; he was guilty of no crime in taking her, and the mere act of illicit intercourse on the road that night cannot make that a crime which would not otherwise be. If she came to him and requested him to take her away for a legitimate purpose, as she insists she…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, C. J.
The second count in the indictment in this cause is as follows: ‘ ‘And the grand j urors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present and charge that Larkin A. Gibson, William Gibson and James Gibson, on the seventh day of April, 1889, at the said county of Harrison, one Ada E. Dyche, a female under the age of eighteen years, to-wit, of the age of fifteen years,' unlawfully and feloniously *95did take from one William Dyche, her father; he, the said William Dyche, then and there having the legal charge of the person of said Ada E. Dyche, without the consent and against the will of…
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