State v. . Nash
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an INDICTMENT for an assault with intent to commit rape upon one Susan Goss, tried at the July Term, 1891, of the Superior Court of GRANViLLE-County, before Winston, J. The defendant is a physician, and had been called in the evening to attend a brother of the girl upon whom the assault was charged to have been committed. The brother lived about one hundred yards from the house of his father, where the girl lived.
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This was an INDICTMENT for an assault with intent to commit rape upon one Susan Goss, tried at the July Term, 1891, of the Superior Court of GRANViLLE-County, before Winston, J. The defendant is a physician, and had been called in the evening to attend a brother of the girl upon whom the assault was charged to have been committed. The brother lived about one hundred yards from the house of his father, where the girl lived. The defendant complained of being tired and wet, and sadly in need of. rest, while at the son’s house, and the mother of the girl offered the defendant the use of her bed,…
1Opinion of the CourtAvery, J.
after stating the facts: If it be conceded that where a physician induces a female to submit to. an examination of her person, by the false and fraudulent representation that he is putting his hands upon her in good faith, for the purpose of diagnosing and treating a disease, when in fact his object is only to gratify a licentious desire, he is equally guilty, in contemplation of law, with one who takes •the same liberties against her consent, and with the avowed intention of gratifying his lusts, it is none the less a sound proposition of law, that whether the person charged with the assault…
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