State v. Nathoo
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pollc District Court. — IIon. Lawrence De Graee, Judge. The defendant was accused of having carnal knowledge of an insensible female, and convicted of having assaulted such female with intent to have carnal knowledge of her. He appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
I. The accused is alleged to have produced “such stupor of mind and weakness of body” of Margaret Miller as to prevent effectual resistance by “the use of means to the grand jury” unknown, and thereupon to have carnally known and abused her. In order to prove this charge, the state relied entirely on circumstantial evidence. No one testified that defendant had had intercourse with Margaret, nor was there testimony that she had not indulged in intercourse with another. Someone must have been unduly intimate with her, for she was delivered of a child May 11, 1910. Though the record is silent as…
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