State v. Bierce
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for seduction. The jury found the defendant guilty .and he moved for a new trial for error in the charge of the court and in arrest of judgment for the insufficiency of the information. The questions made in the case will be sufficiently understood from the opinion of.the court.
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, C. J.
We are of the opinion that the information in this case is sufficient. It is founded on the statute which provides for the punishment of “every person who shall seduce and commit fornication with any female under the age of twenty-one years,” (Rev. Stat., tit. 6, § 83,) and it charges the offense in the words of (he statute. This mode of stating the offense is agreeable to the general rule in framing indictments for statutable misdemeanors. As said by Thompson, J., in delivering the opinion of the court in U. States v. Mills, 7 Pet., 138, “The general rule is that in indictments for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. MillsSupreme Court of the United States · 1833
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