Joice v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Rape. Indictment. Before Judge Schley. Bullock Superior Court. April Term, 1874. Robert Joice was indicted for the offense of rape, as follows: “For that i^he said Robert Joice, in the county of Bullock and state of Georgia, aforesaid, oxi the 6th day of March, in the year 1874, with force and arms, in and upon one Sarah E. Groover, in the peace of God and said state, willfully,-feloniously and violently, did make an assault, and her, the said Sarah E. Groover,…
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Criminal law. Rape. Indictment. Before Judge Schley. Bullock Superior Court. April Term, 1874. Robert Joice was indicted for the offense of rape, as follows: “For that i^he said Robert Joice, in the county of Bullock and state of Georgia, aforesaid, oxi the 6th day of March, in the year 1874, with force and arms, in and upon one Sarah E. Groover, in the peace of God and said state, willfully,-feloniously and violently, did make an assault, and her, the said Sarah E. Groover, did then and there forcibly and against her will, feloniously ravish and carnally know, contrary,” etc. The indictment…
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
1. There was no abstract or brief furnished in this case, and the record was chiefly made up of the original’ papers used in the court below, and some of them separate and detached from the others. No objection was made to the hearing of the case on that ground. On looking through these papers we are satisfied that enough does not appear in the evidence as it was sent up, to authorize the verdict.
*522. To sustain a verdict of guilty on such a charge, the evidence should show that the defendant not only made the assault, but that it was his intent, at the time, forcibly and against…
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