State v. Mitchell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Dent Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Wood-side, Judge. (1) The defendant was forced by the court to testify to the very thing op which the jury convicted him. It was clearly error to rule that defendant must testify as .to whether he ever, at any time, had sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix. A defendant in a criminal prosecution, who testifies in his own behalf, can be cross-examined only upon matters brought out in his examination in chief.
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Appeal from Dent Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Wood-side, Judge. (1) The defendant was forced by the court to testify to the very thing op which the jury convicted him. It was clearly error to rule that defendant must testify as .to whether he ever, at any time, had sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix. A defendant in a criminal prosecution, who testifies in his own behalf, can be cross-examined only upon matters brought out in his examination in chief. R. S. 1899, see. 2637; U. S. Constitution, Fifth Amend. (2) The evidence does not show that defendant seduced the prosecutrix, (a) The…
1Opinion of the CourtFox, J.
— This cause is now pending before this court upon appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the circuit court of Dent county, Missouri, convicting him of the seduction of a female of good repute under the age of twenty-one years under a promise of marriage.
On the 10th day of August, 1909, the prosecuting attorney of Dent county filed with the clerk of the circuit court of said county, an information charging the defendant with unlawfully and feloniously seducing and debauching Arzetta Inman, an unmarried female of good repute and under the age of twenty-one years, under promise of marriage.…
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