State v. Hatfield
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Dallas Circuit Court. — Hon. R. W. Eyann, Judge. The indictment was as follows: The grand jurors for the State of Missouri, summoned from the body of Dallas county, empanelled, charged and sworn, upon their oaths present that William Hatfield, late of the county aforesaid, on the 17th day of October, 1878, at the said county of Dallas, State aforesaid, did, in and upon a certain woman, viz: one C. D., unlawfully, violently, forcibly, willfully and feloniously,…
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Appeal from Dallas Circuit Court. — Hon. R. W. Eyann, Judge. The indictment was as follows: The grand jurors for the State of Missouri, summoned from the body of Dallas county, empanelled, charged and sworn, upon their oaths present that William Hatfield, late of the county aforesaid, on the 17th day of October, 1878, at the said county of Dallas, State aforesaid, did, in and upon a certain woman, viz: one C. D., unlawfully, violently, forcibly, willfully and feloniously, make an assault, and her, the said O. D., then and there, in the said county of Dallas, unlawfully, violently, willfully…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
Defendant was indicted at the April term, 1879, of the Dallas county circuit court, in which he was charged with the crime of rape, and of which he was convicted at the October term, 1879, of said court, and his punishment assessed at five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The cause is here on his appeal.
I. The motion to quash the indictment was properly overruled, as it sufficiently alleges every fact necessary under the statute to constitute the crime therein charged.
II. The court did not err in declining to issue attachments, as prayed for by defendant, for witnesses Brown and Conn,…
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