Legal Opinion
State v. Davis
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided April 11, 1955No. 39504PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
Section 2413, Code of 1942, provides: “Unnatural Intercourse. — Every person who shall he convicted of the detestable and abominable crime against nature committed with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not more than ten years.”
Appellant was indicted under this section. The indictment, omitting formal parts, charged that appellant “did wilfully and feloniously commit the detestable and abominable crime against nature by having unnatural carnal intercourse with one” (name omitted), “a female person, by inserting his private sexual…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Glover v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1913
- State v. VicknairSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1900
- State v. CyrSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1938
- Lason v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1943
- Wharton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1938
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3Cited by8 opinions
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- State v. DietzMontana Supreme Court · 1959
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