Kidwell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal bj the accused from a judgment of conviction, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a criminal term, in a prosecution charging the accused with having had carnal knowledge of two females under sixteen years of age. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Orsdel
Appellant, Morris Kidwell, defendant below, was convicted in the supreme court of the District of Columbia upon an indictment in two counts, charging him with carnal knowledge. The first count charges that he “did carnally know and abuse a certain Gertrude Steele, she, the said Gertrude Steele, being then and there a female child under the age of sixteen years, to wit, of the age of fifteen years.” The date fixed in this count when the offense is alleged to have been committed was the 18th day of December, 1908. In the second count, it is charged that defendant “on the 15th day of July, in…
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