Legal Opinion · Dissent

State v. Anderton

Utah Supreme Court

Decided December 7, 1926No. 4450Published

1DissentStraup, J.

I dissent.

Our statute (section 8105, Comp. Laws Utah 1917) defines rape to he:

“An act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a female, not the wife of the perpetrator, under either of the following circumstances: 1. When the female is under the age of thirteen years; 2. where she is incapable, through lunacy [etc.] of giving legal consent; 3. where she resists, but her resistance is overcome by force or violence; 4. where she is prevented from resisting’ by threats of immediate and great bodily harm; * * * 5. when she is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act, and * * * 6. where…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Cornell v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1899
  2. Smith v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1917
  3. Kilkelly v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1878
  4. State v. CluffUtah Supreme Court · 1916
  5. State v. WilliamsonUtah Supreme Court · 1900

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