State v. Lancaster
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from District Court of Idaho County. Honorable Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Prosecution for statutory rape. Defendant convicted.
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APPEAL from District Court of Idaho County. Honorable Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Prosecution for statutory rape. Defendant convicted. The information in this case charges the defendant with but •one act of sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix, alleged to have taken place on or about the tenth day of June, 1902. The ¿evidence introduced by the state over the strenuous objection of the defendant’s counsel shows, or tends to show, the perpetration of two other separate and distinct acts of rape committed by the defendant upon the prosecutrix at periods of time antedating the date alleged in the…
1Opinion of the Court
SULLIVAN, C. J. —
The appellant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape, and sentenced to a term of six years in state’s prison. The first error assigned is that the court erred in failing to require the clerk to state the plea of the defendant to the jury. While the record and the notes of the stenographic reporter do not show that the defendant’s plea was stated to the jury, we have before us the affidavit of the stenographic reporter, in which he says: “That as soon as the jury were sworn and impaneled in the said cause, the clerk of said court, under the direction of the court, read…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- State v. RobinsonOregon Supreme Court · 1897
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