State v. Grimm

The first error complained of is that the court failed to define the crime of rape and included offenses.

By reading the instructions it will be found that while the court did not, in terms, give a definition of the crime of rape or assault with intent to commit rape, yet in the instructions given the court enumerated each and all of the elements that constituted either of these crimes. Under the circumstances, therefore, we hold there was no necessity, in the absence of a' request from the defendant, for a specific definition of each of these crimes.

The instructions also covered assault and…