Searls v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Searls was convicted in the Lee Circuit Court, Wilkinson, Judge, presiding, of the crime of fornication. The trial was had at March term, 1852. The errors upon which the judgment is reversed are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
Searls and Amanda Hedley were indicted for living together in an open state of fornication. Searls alone was tried. On the trial, the court, at the request of the State’s attorney, gave to the jury the following instructions: “ That the offence with which the defendant is charged in this prosecution is legally and sufficiently proved by circumstances which raise the presumption of cohabitation and unlawful intimacy; that in order to constitute this offence, even one act of sexual intercourse need not be proved by positive testimony, but that the offence is sufficiently proved by any…
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