Braun v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Logan Circuit Court, Southern District; James Cochran, Judge; 1. The court erred in not sustaining the demurrer to the indictment, as the place is not sufficiently described. 101 Ark. 1; 118 Id. 360; 114 Id. 310; 68 Id. 251; 111 Id. 180-214. 2. The court erred in admitting the testimony of witnesses Calvert, Wade, G-ell and Ruth Wade, as to the age of Bessie Self. 1 Abbott, Trial Ev. (3 ed.), 271-75; 6 Conn. 9-13; 193 Mo.
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Appeal from Logan Circuit Court, Southern District; James Cochran, Judge; 1. The court erred in not sustaining the demurrer to the indictment, as the place is not sufficiently described. 101 Ark. 1; 118 Id. 360; 114 Id. 310; 68 Id. 251; 111 Id. 180-214. 2. The court erred in admitting the testimony of witnesses Calvert, Wade, G-ell and Ruth Wade, as to the age of Bessie Self. 1 Abbott, Trial Ev. (3 ed.), 271-75; 6 Conn. 9-13; 193 Mo. App. 619; 187 S. W. 137. 3. The court should have directed a verdict for defendant. None of the elements of the offense charged as defined by the court were made…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
C. F. Braun prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for enticing á girl under eighteen years of age into a resort for immoral practices. The body of the indictment returned against him is as follows:
“The grand jury of Logan County and Southern District, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse C. F. Braun of the crime of enticing, committed as follows, towit: The said C. F. Braun on the 10th day of September, A. D. 1918, in the county and district aforesaid, unlawfully and feloniously did entice and inveigle one Bessie Self, a female…
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