Legal Opinion
Leoni v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 15, 1870PublishedCited by 18 opinions
Appeal from tbe City Court of Mobile. Tried before Hod. C. E.’ Moulton. Tbe facts upou which tbe case turns are sufficiently set out in the opinion,
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
On the 12th day of June, 1869, Gaetano Leoni, the appellant, was indicted, in the city court of Mobile, for rape on Elizabeth Lazzaro. The indictment was in the following words :
“ The State of Alabama, 1 City Court of Mobile. Mobile county, f June Term, 1869.
“ The grand jury of said county charge, that, before the finding of this indictment, Gaetano Leoni forcibly ravished Elizabeth Lazzaro, a female, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.”
This cause came on to be tried at the fall term of said court, in the year 1869, when the said defendant, Leoni, demurred to said…
2Cited by18 opinions
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