People v. Jennes
Michigan Supreme Court
On exceptions from tbe Recorder’s Court of tbe City of Detroit. The information against defendant contained one count only, charging him with the commission of incest with Delia E. Ashcroft, the daughter of his sister, Martha Jane Ashcroft, at the city of Detroit, on the 24th day of February, 1858. On the trial in the Court below, the prosecution proposing to place said Delia on the stand as a witness, the defendant’s counsel examined her on her voir dire as to her religious…
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On exceptions from tbe Recorder’s Court of tbe City of Detroit. The information against defendant contained one count only, charging him with the commission of incest with Delia E. Ashcroft, the daughter of his sister, Martha Jane Ashcroft, at the city of Detroit, on the 24th day of February, 1858. On the trial in the Court below, the prosecution proposing to place said Delia on the stand as a witness, the defendant’s counsel examined her on her voir dire as to her religious belief, and she testified that she believed in the existence of a Supreme Being, and always-had; and never to her…
1Opinion of the Court
Chkistiancy J.:
This cauge comes to this Court from the Recorder’s Court of the City of Detroit.
The charge against the defendant in the information (which, except as to matters of form, is to be treated as an indictment) is, that the defendant, on the 24th day of February, 1858, at the city .of Detroit, did commit fornication with Delia E. Ashcroft, by then and there having carnal, knowledge of the body of the said Delia E. — the said defendant and the. said Delia E. being then and there within the degrees of consanguity within which marriages are prohibited and declared by the laws of this…
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