State v. Michael
West Virginia Supreme Court
I. — Proof of penetration, slight or complete, is a condition precedent to the establishment of the crime of rape. — Desty’s Am. Crim. Law, Sec. 133 a; 1 Ya. Cas. 307. II. — Evidence of penetration in this case dofs not meet the requirements of law. — 42 Tex. 226; 51 Cal. 371; 23 Gratt. 954 ; 46 Cal. 549 ; 6 Cal. 221; 24 Gratt. 655. I. — Indictment defective. — 22 W. Ya. 766; Code, c. 144, s. 15 ; Bl. Com. book 4 section 212; 3 Ark. 4,00 ; 5 Gratt. 672 ; 2 Ya.
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I. — Proof of penetration, slight or complete, is a condition precedent to the establishment of the crime of rape. — Desty’s Am. Crim. Law, Sec. 133 a; 1 Ya. Cas. 307. II. — Evidence of penetration in this case dofs not meet the requirements of law. — 42 Tex. 226; 51 Cal. 371; 23 Gratt. 954 ; 46 Cal. 549 ; 6 Cal. 221; 24 Gratt. 655. I. — Indictment defective. — 22 W. Ya. 766; Code, c. 144, s. 15 ; Bl. Com. book 4 section 212; 3 Ark. 4,00 ; 5 Gratt. 672 ; 2 Ya. Cas. 235 ; 8 Gray 490; 42 Tex. 228; 3 Park. Cr. (H. Y.) 15; 1 Kuss. Cr. 586; 1 Chitt. Cr. L. 286;' Arch. Cr. PI. 47. II. — Prosecuting…
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, Judge :
This is a prosecution against Edward J. Michael for carnal knowledge of Garnet L. Pool, an infant five years of *568age. The ease was tried at the fall term of the Cabell county Circuit Court. The jury found the accused guilty, and the court sentenced him to ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. From this judgment the accused applied for and obtained a writ of error to this Court, and now here assigns five separate errors committed by said trial-court to his prejudice; (1) Failure to quash the indictment. (2) Refusing to give a certain instruction asked. (3) The incompetency…
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