Legal Opinion
People v. Adams
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided July 14, 1910No. Docket No. 140PublishedCited by 17 opinions
Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Connolly, J. John A. Adams was convicted of. seduction, and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 2-J nor more than 5 years in the branch of the State prison at Marquette.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The complaining witness, a girl 18 years of age at the time of the transactions detailed in her testimony, was the daughter of well-to-do German people in the city of Louisville, Ky. Her testimony shows that her attention was caught by an advertisement in the matrimonial column of a Cincinnati paper. It read as follows:
“Business man of means, refined, 36, wishes acquaintance of congenial young lady, eighteen to twenty-five; fond of amusements; correspondence strictly confidential; give description. ’K9 Inquirer.”
She wrote to the address mentioned, this letter:
*373“Louisville, Ky., Sept. 21, 1908.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- People v. LambertMichigan Supreme Court · 1858
- Rossiter v. ChesterMichigan Supreme Court · 1843
- People v. HammondMichigan Supreme Court · 1903
- Judson v. JudsonMichigan Supreme Court · 1907
- People v. LoomisMichigan Supreme Court · 1895
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3Cited by17 opinions
- State v. HuffmanWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1955
- United States v. Alexander SuttonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- People v. HooperMichigan Court of Appeals · 1973
- Irving v. Goodimate Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. ArmstrongCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1936
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