Legal Opinion

State v. Hector

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 10, 1912PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. E. B. Woodruff, Judge. Defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of seduction and appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.

At the time the crime is said to have been committed, Minnie Peterson, the prosecutrix, was about sixteen and one-half years of age, and defendant was just past eighteen. Bach lived at the home of his parents in the town of Walnut in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, and within a short distance of each other. Prosecutrix came into town with her parents in the year 1905, and during the fall of that year she first met the defendant. The seduction is said to have occurred in June of the year 1906. At that time defendant was attending the public schools; but prosecutrix had ceased going to school and…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. People v. AikinMichigan Supreme Court · 1887
  2. State v. HastySupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
  3. State v. CurranSupreme Court of Iowa · 1879
  4. Kelly v. CummensSupreme Court of Iowa · 1909
  5. Foreman v. ArcherSupreme Court of Iowa · 1906

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. State v. WalkerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1921
  2. State v. FrommeltSupreme Court of Iowa · 1968
  3. State v. ArchibaldSupreme Court of Iowa · 1927
  4. State v. NicolaSupreme Court of Iowa · 1915
  5. Wildeboer v. PetersenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1919

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