State v. Colestock
Oregon Supreme Court
From "Washington: Thos. A. McBride, Judge. Ezra Colestock, feeling he has not received justice by a sentence of twelve years in the penitentiary, appeals from a conviction of rape.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
The defendant, Ezra E. Colestock, was convicted of the crime of rape, alleged to have been committed by forcibly ravishing a female named Mary E. Thompson; and, having been sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of twelve years, he appeals, assigning as error the action of the trial court in refusing to charge the jury as requested, and in *10giving an instruction of which he complains. To render the alleged error intelligible, it is deemed necessary to detail the facts disclosed by the transcript. The bill of exceptions does not purport to contain all the evidence given at…
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- People v. MorrisonCourt Of Oyer And Terminer New York · 1854
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