Bunfill v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Brown county; the Hon. Jefferson Orr, Judge, presiding. Instructions 6, 7 and 8, referred to in the opinion of the court as erroneous, are as follows : 6. “You are instructed that in passing upon this case you have a right to take into consideration the fact of the girls’ ages; also the further fact, if you find the same to be a fact, that the defendant was and is the stepfather of the prosecuting witnesses, in determining as to whether…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Brown county; the Hon. Jefferson Orr, Judge, presiding. Instructions 6, 7 and 8, referred to in the opinion of the court as erroneous, are as follows : 6. “You are instructed that in passing upon this case you have a right to take into consideration the fact of the girls’ ages; also the further fact, if you find the same to be a fact, that the defendant was and is the stepfather of the prosecuting witnesses, in determining as to whether threats or intimidation was used to cause said Laura and Ida Goodwin to be guilty of prostitution, fornication or…
1Opinion of the Court
Phillips, J.:
The second section of an act entitled “An act to prevent the prostitution of females,” approved June 7, 1887, is as follows: “Whoever shall unlawfully detain or confine any female, by force, false pretence or intimidation, in any room, house, building or premises in this State, against the will of such female, for purposes of .prostitution or with intent to cause such female to become a prostitute, and be guilty of fornication or concubinage therein, or shall, by force, false pretence, confinement or intimidation, attempt to prevent any female so as aforesaid detained from…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Slocum v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1878
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