Legal Opinion

Bruce v. State

Nebraska Supreme Court

Decided May 19, 1896No. 8273PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Error to the district court for Burt county. Tried below before Keysor, J. References: Bedfield v. State, 39 Neb., 192; Edgar v. McOutehen, 9 Mo., 448.

1Opinion of the Court

Irvine, 0.

The plaintiff in error was convicted upon an information charging him, being of the age of more than eighteen years, with having carnally known and abused a certain female child under the age of fifteen years, to-wit, of the age of fourteen, with her consent. The offense was alleged to have been committed May 9,1893, and the information was filed March 26, 1894. There is an act of the legislature of 1895 (Session Laws, 1895, ch. 74), relating to this offense; but it will be observed that the dates stated are such that this act is without bearing on the case.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. City of South Omaha v. Taxpayers' LeagueNebraska Supreme Court · 1894

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. HixCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1926
  2. State v. GrovesOhio Supreme Court · 1909

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