State v. Wells
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for an assault with intent to commit a rape. The statute (Rev. Stat., tit. 6, § 18,) provides that “ every person who shall, with actual violence, make an assault upon the body of any female, with intent to commit a rape, shall suffer imprisonment in the Connecticut state prison not less than three nor more than ten years.”
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Information for an assault with intent to commit a rape. The statute (Rev. Stat., tit. 6, § 18,) provides that “ every person who shall, with actual violence, make an assault upon the body of any female, with intent to commit a rape, shall suffer imprisonment in the Connecticut state prison not less than three nor more than ten years.” The information charged that the defendant, “ on the 4th day of February, 1862, at said town of Colchester, with force and arms, in and upon one Abby Wells, a single woman, in the peace then and there being, did make an assault, and her, the said Abby Wells,…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
The statute on which this information was *212framed, has been upon our statute books, substantially in its present form, about sixty years. During that period, so far as we are advised, the form adopted by the attorney in this case has been the only one published, (except a less perfect one in 1833 by Judge Niles in his Civil Officer,) and has been generally used. It was inserted by the late Chief Justice Swift in his Digest, and was retained in the late revision of that work by Judge Dutton ; and it would be not a little singular, if, at this late day, by a critical examination of it, counsel…
2Cited by11 opinions
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