State v. Schaunhurst
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Keokuk District Court. The defendants were jointly indicted for tbe crime of incest, in that, being brother and sister, they did unlawfully and feloniously intermarry with each other. They were separately tried, and each convicted. They prosecute separate appeals to this court; but, the record in. each being identical, the cases are submitted together.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Ch. J.
The objections to the judgment and proceedings of the district court in these cases will be considered and determined in the order in which we find them presented in the brief of defendants’ counsel.
1. criminal law: incest under the statute. I. The court, in substance, instructed the jury, that the law of the State forbids the marriage of a brother with a sister, and that all persons within the degree consanguinity of brother and sister, who shall intermarry with, or carnally know each other, shall be deemed guilty of incest, and be punished, by imprisonment in the penitentiary,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- People v. JennesMichigan Supreme Court · 1858
- State v. SandersSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
3Cited by6 opinions
- State v. NelsonWashington Supreme Court · 1905
- State v. McGilveryWashington Supreme Court · 1898
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1900
- State v. JuddSupreme Court of Iowa · 1906
- People v. BordNew York Court of Appeals · 1926
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