Legal Opinion
State v. Romero
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided November 26, 1906No. 16,357PublishedCited by 21 opinions
Appeal from Seventeenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vermilion; William Pierrepont Edwards, Judge. Joseph Romero was convicted of crime, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Defendant was convicted under Act No. 115 of 1896, p. 165, which reads:
“If any person over the age of eighteen years shall have carnal knowledge of any unmarried female between the ages of twelve and sixteen years with her consent, he shall,” etc.
Defendant was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary, and has appealed.
His first complaint is that the judge refused to make an order for the summoning of witnesses from another parish to prove that the prosecutrix was “a woman of dissolute manners.”
Whether witnesses shall be required to attend from another parish is left by the statute to the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- State v. SpurlingSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
- State v. HobgoodSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1894
- State v. MecheSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
- State v. YoungSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
- State v. BaudoinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- State v. DreherSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1928
- State v. DavisSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1923
- State v. ColeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1926
- State v. SatcherSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
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