People v. Scattura

Plaintiff in error prosecutes this writ to reverse his conviction upon an indictment charging him with taking indecent liberties with a girl about seven years old.

The indictment, under the act of May 17, 1907, “tó define and punish crimes against children,” (Hurd’s Stat. 1908, p. 716,) charges that the plaintiff in error, “being a male person of the age of seventeen years and upwards, unlawfully and feloniously did take certain immoral, improper and indecent liberties with a certain female child under the age of fifteen years and of the age of seven years, to-wit, Maia Bessonet, with the…