State v. Moore

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of attempting “to forcibly ravish and carnally know” Naomi Moore, a woman over eighteen years of age.

1. The defendant filed a motion to quash the information. The motion was overruled, and the defendant insists that the motion should have been sustained. The information was drawn under sections 3392 and 3328 of the General Statutes of 1915. Section 3392 in part reads as follows:

“Every person who shall be convicted of rape ... by forcibly ravishing any woman of the age of eighteen years…