State v. Wright

MilleR, Judge:

The State is plaintiff in error, and brought the case here to review the judgment below quashing the indictment and discharging the defendant from further prosecution.

The indictment charges that the defendant, “on the .... day of., 1919, in said county of Wetzel, in and upon one Clara Taylor, a female child under the age of fourteen years, to-wit, of the age of twelve years, unlawfully and feloniously did make an assault, and her the said Clara Taylor then and there unlawfully and feloniously did carnally know and abuse, against the peace and dignity of the State. ’ ’

The first…