State v. Hooks
Wisconsin Supreme Court
CERTIFIED from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The case and exceptions are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The Attorney General, for the state, argued, among other things, that the information in this case contained all the averments necessary in one for adultery, and that the words “ with force and against the will,” and “ ravish,” were not inconsistent therewith, since it is -sufficient to constitute that offense that it be voluntary on the part of the accused.
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CERTIFIED from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The case and exceptions are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The Attorney General, for the state, argued, among other things, that the information in this case contained all the averments necessary in one for adultery, and that the words “ with force and against the will,” and “ ravish,” were not inconsistent therewith, since it is -sufficient to constitute that offense that it be voluntary on the part of the accused. State v. Donovan, 61 Iowa, 278; State v. Sanders, 30 id. 582; Comm. v. Bakeman, 131 Mass. 577; Bishop on Stat. Crimes (2d…
1Opinion of the CourtTatlob, J.
The defendant was informed against for rape. The following is a copy of the information:
“I, J. W. Murphy, district attorney for said county, hereby inform the court that on the 16th day of July, in the year A. D. 1886, at said county, Frank Hooks did then and there unlawfully and feloniously, with force and agai/nst the will of one Dorcas Cushman, a married female more than ten years of age, said Dorcas Cushman not being then and there the wife of said Frank Hooks, unlawfully ravish and carnally know her, the said Dorcas Cush-man, contrary to the statute in such cases made and provided, and…
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